Disparities In Mental Health
Contents INTRODUCTION 1 BODY OF ESSAY 1 CONCLUSION 5 REFERENCES 6
INTRODUCTION
This assignment is aiming to develop an essay analysing the reason of increasing waiting time in mental health hospitals and causative reasons behind this increase in waiting period. This essay will reflecting on various factors which collectively develop mental health services like psychiatrist, mental health nurses, mental asylums, funding, new management approaches, availability of rooms etc. This is a secondary research assignment which will be relying on various literature sources to assess the current situation (Rana & Upton, 2009).
BODY OF ESSAY
Mental health is defined as a state of complete emotional, psychological and social wellbeing. …show more content…
These disorders can be caused by various diverse reasons. They may be caused due to genetic or developmental defect, trauma during pregnancy or injury at the time of delivery, maternal psychological stress, etc. Sometimes even few infections caused by some viruses or parasites may also lead to development of mental illness for example Schizophrenia is being related with the infection of a parasite Toxoplasma gondii. There are many evidences which suggest that mental disorders can be closely related to negative events of person’s life such as ill treatment in childhood, physical or sexual abuse, etc (Groleau, et al. …show more content…
Generally these people go unnoticed and untreated at initial stages where they can be treated without being admitted while on the other hand when they return back their severity of disorder is very high and they take a lot more time and resources to get treated. Thus social stigma associated with mental disorder is actually making things worse for the existing patient and increasing the waiting time in hospitals and clinics, ultimately affecting health of society, well being and growth of the country (Drescher, et al 2008). There are four major factors identified as impacting the waiting period in mental health departments of Bendigo base hospital. They are as follows 1) patients who need hospitalization 2) length of stay in hospitals 3) financing structure 4) cost of treatment and decide about number of special beds/ wards required in hospitals for psychiatry patients. It is also dependent upon the number of asylums needed as per the number of patients and actual availability of asylum. Number of trained nurses in mental health and staffs, doctor patient ratio also impacts the waiting period time for a new patient if he is trying to get admitted. The major concern is waiting period for the patients due to shortage of above factors (Happell, et al.
INTRODUCTION
This assignment is aiming to develop an essay analysing the reason of increasing waiting time in mental health hospitals and causative reasons behind this increase in waiting period. This essay will reflecting on various factors which collectively develop mental health services like psychiatrist, mental health nurses, mental asylums, funding, new management approaches, availability of rooms etc. This is a secondary research assignment which will be relying on various literature sources to assess the current situation (Rana & Upton, 2009).
BODY OF ESSAY
Mental health is defined as a state of complete emotional, psychological and social wellbeing. …show more content…
These disorders can be caused by various diverse reasons. They may be caused due to genetic or developmental defect, trauma during pregnancy or injury at the time of delivery, maternal psychological stress, etc. Sometimes even few infections caused by some viruses or parasites may also lead to development of mental illness for example Schizophrenia is being related with the infection of a parasite Toxoplasma gondii. There are many evidences which suggest that mental disorders can be closely related to negative events of person’s life such as ill treatment in childhood, physical or sexual abuse, etc (Groleau, et al. …show more content…
Generally these people go unnoticed and untreated at initial stages where they can be treated without being admitted while on the other hand when they return back their severity of disorder is very high and they take a lot more time and resources to get treated. Thus social stigma associated with mental disorder is actually making things worse for the existing patient and increasing the waiting time in hospitals and clinics, ultimately affecting health of society, well being and growth of the country (Drescher, et al 2008). There are four major factors identified as impacting the waiting period in mental health departments of Bendigo base hospital. They are as follows 1) patients who need hospitalization 2) length of stay in hospitals 3) financing structure 4) cost of treatment and decide about number of special beds/ wards required in hospitals for psychiatry patients. It is also dependent upon the number of asylums needed as per the number of patients and actual availability of asylum. Number of trained nurses in mental health and staffs, doctor patient ratio also impacts the waiting period time for a new patient if he is trying to get admitted. The major concern is waiting period for the patients due to shortage of above factors (Happell, et al.