Researching public action and development concepts in the context of mental health
dc.contributor.author | Cutler, Paul | * |
dc.contributor.author | Hayward, Robert | * |
dc.contributor.editor | Eade, Deborah | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-05-24T09:58:40Z | en |
dc.date.available | 2011-05-24T09:58:40Z | en |
dc.date.issued | 2007-04-01 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0961-4524 | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/09614520701197267 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10546/130845 | en |
dc.description | This 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.extent | 6 | en |
dc.format.mimetype | en | |
dc.language.iso | English | en |
dc.publisher | Oxfam GB | en |
dc.publisher | Routledge | en |
dc.relation.url | http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/researching-public-action-and-development-concepts-in-the-context-of-mental-hea-130845 | |
dc.subject | Approach and methodology | |
dc.subject | Health | |
dc.title | Researching public action and development concepts in the context of mental health | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1364-9213 | en |
dc.identifier.journal | Development in Practice | en |
oxfam.signoff.status | For public use – can be shared outside Oxfam | en |
oxfam.subject.country | Estonia | en |
oxfam.subject.country | Romania | en |
oxfam.subject.country | Kyrgyzstan | en |
oxfam.subject.keyword | Development methods | |
oxfam.subject.keyword | Health systems | |
oxfam.subject.keyword | Health promotion | |
oxfam.subject.keyword | Development in Practice Journal | |
oxfam.subject.keyword | DiP | |
prism.number | 2 | en |
prism.volume | 17 | en |
dc.year.issuedate | 2007 | en |