Table of Contents

Series Editors’ Introduction

Foreword 1

Foreword 2

Acknowledgments

Mental Health Policy and Practice Across Europe: an overview
The Historical Development of Mental Health Services in Europe
Inequalities, Social Exclusion and Mental Health
Financing And Funding Mental Health Care Services
The Evidence Base in Mental Health Policy and Practice
A Policy Framework for the promotion of mental health and the prevention of mental disorders
Common Mental Health Problems in Primary Care: Policy Goals and the Evidence-Base
Reforms In Community Care: the Balance Between Hospital and Community -based Mental Health Care
Developments in the Treatment of Mental Disorders
Psycho-pharmaceuticals in Europe
Mental Health Policy in Former Eastern Bloc Countries
Addiction and Substance Abuse
Housing and Employment
Developing Mental Health Policy: a Human Rights Perspective
The User and Survivor Movement in Europe
Carers and Families of People with Mental Health Disorders
The Mental Health Care of Asylum Seekers and Refugees
Global Perspective on Mental Health Policy and Service Development Issues

About the Author

Martin Knapp is Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Director of the Personal Social Services Research Unit, and co-director of LSE Health and Social Care. He is also Professor of Health Economics and Director of the Centre for the Economics of Mental Health at King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry. David McDaid is Research Fellow in Health Policy and Health Economics at LSE Health and Social Care and the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, both at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Graham Thornicroft is Professor of Community Psychiatry at King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry. He is also a consultant psychiatrist working at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. Elias Mossialos is Brian Abel-Smith Professor of Health Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Research Director of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies.