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dc.contributor.authorCutler, Paul*
dc.contributor.authorHayward, Robert*
dc.contributor.editorEade, Deborahen
dc.date.accessioned2011-05-24T09:58:40Zen
dc.date.available2011-05-24T09:58:40Zen
dc.date.issued2007-04-01en
dc.identifier.issn0961-4524en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09614520701197267en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10546/130845en
dc.descriptionThis report summarises a project of participatory action-research combining concepts from the field of development management with practice in international mental health. The research was conducted in Estonia, Kyrgyzstan, and Romania. The policy-as-process model is central to understandings of development management, but it is unfamiliar to organisations working in mental health, even those working from a community level, bottom-up perspective to influence mental-health policy. At the same time, practice and learning from the field of mental health and radical user-empowerment models have received little attention from development managers. The research reported here found that the policy-as-process model was useful to mental-health activists and that it provided an alternative framework to more traditional, top-down, and prescriptive policy concepts, and made it possible to make sense of the multiple perspectives, value-based conflicts, and power dynamics that characterise understandings and practice in mental health. Among the recommendations is a call for closer links between mental-health activism and development management, and a transfer of knowledge, understanding, and experience between the two disciplines.<p>This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.</p>en
dc.format.extent6en
dc.format.mimetypePDFen
dc.language.isoEnglishen
dc.publisherOxfam GBen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.urlhttp://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/researching-public-action-and-development-concepts-in-the-context-of-mental-hea-130845
dc.subjectApproach and methodology
dc.subjectHealth
dc.titleResearching public action and development concepts in the context of mental healthen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.identifier.eissn1364-9213en
dc.identifier.journalDevelopment in Practiceen
oxfam.signoff.statusFor public use – can be shared outside Oxfamen
oxfam.subject.countryEstoniaen
oxfam.subject.countryRomaniaen
oxfam.subject.countryKyrgyzstanen
oxfam.subject.keywordDevelopment methods
oxfam.subject.keywordHealth systems
oxfam.subject.keywordHealth promotion
oxfam.subject.keywordDevelopment in Practice Journal
oxfam.subject.keywordDiP
prism.number2en
prism.volume17en
dc.year.issuedate2007en


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