Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Initiative

OUR LEXICON

Best Practices

Technique or methodology that, through experience and research, has proven to reliably lead to a desired result. [Interchangeable with "Better Practices" and "Good Practices"]

Based on discussions held in January 2005 between a number of national and regional initiatives funded by the Primary Health Care Transition Fund

Collaborative care

An interprofessional process of communication and decision making that allows the knowledge and skills of different health care providers, along with the client/consumer, to influence the care provided to that consumer.

Oandasan I. Interdisciplinary education for collaborative patient-centred practice: research and findings report. February 20, 2004. Ottawa: Health Canada; 2004. p. ii. Available online

Collaborative Mental Health Care

Collaborative care for the purposes of enhancing mental health outcomes.

Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Initiative. 2004. In-house definition.

Collaborative practice

Collaborative practice involves patient-centred care with a minimum of two caregivers from different disciplines working together with the care recipient to meet the assessed health care needs.

Canadian Medical Association; Canadian Nurses Association. Working together: a joint CNA/CMA collaborative practice project, HIV-AIDS example [background paper]. Ottawa: CMA; 1996. p. 24. Available through the CMA’s Member Service Centre 1867 prom. Alta Vista Dr., Ottawa ON K1G 3Y6; e-mail: [email protected] 

Consumer

A recipient of mental health care and related support services to meet the individual’s needs in any care setting. [Interchangeable terms include “patient”, “user”, “client”]

Adapted from: Canadian Medical Association; Canadian Nurses Association. Working together: A joint CNA/CMA collaborative practice project. HIV/AIDS example [background paper]. Ottawa: CMA; Mar. 25, 1996. p. 24. Available through the CMA's Member Service Centre 1867 prom. Alta Vista Dr., Ottawa ON K1G3Y6; Tel.: 800663-7336 ext.2307, Fax: 613-731-9102, E-mail: [email protected]

Consumer-Centred

Care that is respectful and responsive of individual consumer preferences, needs and values, ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions.

Adapted from: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Quality of Health Care in America. Crossing the quality chasm: a new health system for the 21st century. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press; 2001. 364 p.

Interdisciplinary

A range of collaborative activity undertaken by a team of two (2) or more individuals from different disciplines applying the methods and approaches of their respective disciplines.

Based on discussions held in January 2005 between a number of national and regional initiatives funded by the Primary Health Care Transition Fund.

Interdisciplinary Practice

A functioning unit composed of individuals with varied and specialized training, who coordinate their activities to provide services to a client or group of clients.

Duncanis AJ, Golin AK. The interdisciplinary health care team: a handbook. Germantown, MD: Aspen Systems; 1979. 201p.

Interdisciplinary approaches to care are essentially team-based and necessarily driven by a collaborative leadership process that focuses on joint success rather than individual performance.

Mourning 1999, referred to in McCallin A. Interdisciplinary team leadership: a revisionist approach for an old problem? J Nurs Manag. 2003 Nov; 11(6):364-70. 

 “…[A]n interprofessional process of communication and decision-making that enables the separate and shared knowledge and skills of health care providers to synergistically influence the client/patient care provided.”

Way DO, Busing N, Jones L. Implementation strategies: Collaboration in primary care-family doctors and nurse practitioners delivering shared care, Toronto: Ontario College of Family Physicians, May 2000. p.3.

Population Health (Approach, System, Planning)

A conceptual framework for thinking about health.  The overall goal of the approach is to maintain and improve the health of the entire population and to reduce inequalities in health between population groups. In this approach, the entire range of known (i.e., evidence-based) individual and collective factors and conditions that determined population health status, and the interactions among them, are taken into account in planning for health improvement. Population health and primary health care are similar in that they focus on the broad determinants of health, rely on intersectoral collaboration, are committed to accountability and evidence and involve working with communities to find solutions. Primary health care is different from population health in that it has a service delivery component that is targeted to individuals, families and communities.

Primary Health Care Policy Framework. Primary health care [updated 2003 Apr 30]. Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Health.  Available at: http://www.gov.mb.ca/health/phc/framework.html

Primary Health Care

An individual’s first contact with the health system characterized by a spectrum of comprehensive, coordinated and continuous health care services such as health promotion, diagnosis, treatment and chronic disease management.

Adapted from: Mable AL, Marriott J. Sharing the learning: the Health Transition Fund synthesis series: primary health care health. Ottawa: Health Canada; 2002. 48p.; available online; and Nova Scotia Advisory Committee on Primary Health Care Renewal.  Primary health care renewal: action for healthier Nova Scotians: a report of the Nova Scotia Advisory Committee on Primary Health Care Renewal, May 2003. Halifax, NS: NS Department of Health; 2003. p. 1.; available online

Primary Health Care Setting
Primary health care is delivered in many settings such as the workplace, schools, home, health-care institutions, homes for the aged, nursing homes, day-care centres, offices of health care providers, and community clinics.  It is also available by telephone, health information services and the Internet.

Klaiman D. Increasing access to occupational therapy in primary health care. Occupational Therapy Now Online. 2004 Jan-Feb;6(1); available online.

Primary Mental Health Care

Mental health services provided in a primary health care setting.

Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Initiative. 2004. In-house definition.

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