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A Series of Papers Commissioned by the CCMHI

PAPER #1: Advancing the Agenda for Collaborative Mental Health Care

Mental illness is one of the most significant disabilities facing Canadians and many people are not getting the care that they need. This paper provides a snapshot of the barriers for people who need access to mental health services (...more)

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PAPER #2: What Is Collaborative Mental Health Care? An Introduction to the Collaborative Mental Health Care Framework

This paper describes the conceptual Framework created by the Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Initiative (CCMHI) to reach a common understanding of collaborative mental health care (...more)

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PAPER #3: Annotated Bibliography of Collaborative Mental Health Care

The Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Initiative has produced a comprehensive annotated bibliography of research publications (2000 - 2004) related to the integration of mental health and primary health care (...more)

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PAPER #4: Better Practices in Collaborative Mental Health Care: An Analysis of the Evidence Base

The authors identify better practices to enhance and develop collaborative activities in primary health care by policy makers, providers and other key stakeholders. A comprehensive review of Canadian and international literature using Medline and PsycInfo databases yielded over 800 related reports, of which, 31 studies met the inclusion criteria. Most of the studies reviewed were multifaceted, multidisciplinary and randomized controlled trials. (...more)

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PAPER #5: Collaborative Mental Health Care in Primary Health Care: A Review of Canadian Initiatives

This paper offers a comprehensive resource to support providers, planners and policy makers in the development and/or enhancement of collaborative mental health care initiatives. The analysis is based on descriptions collected from over 100 collaborative mental health care initiatives across Canada (...more)

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PAPER #6: Collaborative Mental Health Care in Primary Health Care Across Canada: A Policy Review

This research paper summarizes a review of mental health and primary health care policies and legislation in each province and territory (...more)

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PAPER #7: Collaborative Mental Health Care: A Review of Selected International Initiatives

[Internal document, unpublished]

PAPER #8: Health Human Resources in Collaborative Mental Health Care

This paper provides an understanding of the key health human resources issues and trends in collaborative mental health care in Canada. (...more)

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PAPER #9: Prevalence of Mental Health and Related Service Utilization in Canada: An Analysis of the Canadian Community Health Survey

As part of its analysis of the current state of collaborative mental health care in Canada, the Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Initiative undertook a review of mental health prevalence and service utilization patterns (...more)

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PAPER #10: Interprofessional Education Initiatives in Collaborative Mental Health Care

What is being done to promote collaboration in the education of health professionals? How do health care providers from different professions learn about one another and how do they learn to collaborate? (...more)

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PAPER #11: Providing Mental Health Services to Aboriginal Peoples through Collaborative Mental Health Care: A Situation Report

[Internal document, unpublished]

PAPER #12: Current State of Collaborative Mental Health Care

This overview provides a synthesis of nine reports commissioned by the Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Initiative to identify the current state of collaborative mental health care (...more)

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Other Research

Shared Mental Health Care: A Bibliography and Overview

Shared Mental Health Care in Canada: A Compendium of Current Projects (pdf)


 


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