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Mental health care delivery system reform in Belgium: the challenge of achieving deinstitutionalisation whilst addressing fragmentation of care at the same time.
Nicaise, Pablo; Dubois, Vincent; Lorant, Vincent.
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  • Nicaise P; Institute of Health and Society (IRSS), Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium. Electronic address: pablo.nicaise@uclouvain.be.
  • Dubois V; Institute of Health and Society (IRSS), Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
  • Lorant V; Institute of Health and Society (IRSS), Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
Health Policy ; 115(2-3): 120-7, 2014 Apr.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24582489
Most mental health care delivery systems in welfare states currently face two major issues: deinstitutionalisation and fragmentation of care. Belgium is in the process of reforming its mental health care delivery system with the aim of simultaneously strengthening community care and improving integration of care. The new policy model attempts to strike a balance between hospitals and community services, and is based on networks of services. We carried out a content analysis of the policy blueprint for the reform and performed an ex-ante evaluation of its plan of operation, based on the current knowledge of mental health service networks. When we examined the policy's multiple aims, intermediate goals, suggested tools, and their articulation, we found that it was unclear how the new policy could achieve its goals. Indeed, deinstitutionalisation and integration of care require different network structures, and different modes of governance. Furthermore, most of the mechanisms contained within the new policy were not sufficiently detailed. Consequently, three major threats to the effectiveness of the reform were identified. These were: issues concerning the relationship between network structure and purpose, the continued influence of hospitals despite the goal of deinstitutionalisation, and the heterogeneity in the actual implementation of the new policy.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Reforma de la Atención de Salud / Continuidad de la Atención al Paciente / Desinstitucionalización / Servicios de Salud Mental Límite: Humans País/Región como asunto: Europa Idioma: En Revista: Health Policy Asunto de la revista: PESQUISA EM SERVICOS DE SAUDE / SAUDE PUBLICA Año: 2014 Tipo del documento: Article Pais de publicación: Irlanda
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Reforma de la Atención de Salud / Continuidad de la Atención al Paciente / Desinstitucionalización / Servicios de Salud Mental Límite: Humans País/Región como asunto: Europa Idioma: En Revista: Health Policy Asunto de la revista: PESQUISA EM SERVICOS DE SAUDE / SAUDE PUBLICA Año: 2014 Tipo del documento: Article Pais de publicación: Irlanda