Overview
Discusses global mental health policy against context of Pacific Island Countries
Explores the historical development of mental health systems
Identifies and examines how colonialisation has institutionalised contemporary mental health systems
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Using recent scholarship concerning public policy transfer, this book explains these policy outcomes and expands it to include consideration of the historical institutional dimensions evidenced by contemporary mental health systems. This book considers three distinct levels of policy implicated in mental health system transfer processes from developed to developing nations: colonial authority and influence; decolonisation processes; and the global development agenda surrounding health systems. In the process, the author argues that there are in fact three levels of policy change that must be accounted for in examining contemporary policy change. These policy levels include formal policy transfers, which tend to be prescriptive, involving professional problem construction and the designation of appropriate state apparatus for curative or custodial care provision; quasi-formal transfers, which tend to be aspirational and involve policy instruments developed through collaborative, participatory processes; and informal transfers that tend to be normative and include practices by professional actors in delivering service merged with traditional cultural beliefs as to disease aetiology as well as reflecting a deep understanding of the cultural context within which the services will be delivered. This book argues that a renewed focus on the importance of public policy and government institutional capacity is necessary to ensure human rights and justice are secured.
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Book Title: Mental Health Public Policy in Global Context
Book Subtitle: A Comparative Study of Policy Transfer in Samoa and Tonga
Authors: Timothy Philip Fadgen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6479-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-6478-9Published: 17 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-6481-9Published: 18 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-6479-6Published: 16 September 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 221
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, Constitutional Law, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Development and Health, Globalization