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Jun 14, 2023 · The truth is: advocacy makes things happen. Policymakers, from your local mayor to your U.S. Senators, rely on hearing from constituents like you about topics that matter most to you. Through advocacy, you have the power to influence how decision makers support people with mental health conditions.
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- What Are The Key Questions?
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- Data Availability Statement
- Conflict of Interest
- Acknowledgments
- Supplementary Material
Research on mental health in political behavior is in its infancy but growing fast. Most scholarly attention has been focusing on the negative effect of mental health deterioration on political participation, especially voting (Ojeda 2015; Burden et al., 2017; Couture and Breux 2017; Sund et al., 2017; Ojeda and Pacheco 2019; Ojeda and Slaughter 20...
Empirical research on mental health policy has long been off the radar of political scientists, especially those interested in political behavior. Not surprisingly, there is an enormous amount of work on mental health in psychiatry and epidemiology, but mental health scholars have of course been interested in other aspects than public opinion, incl...
To test whether spending on mental health responds to spending support and mental health policy-related problems, I follow previous research on government responsiveness (e.g., Soroka and Wlezien 2010) that estimates change in policy as a function of relative preferences and partisanship. Here I extend this model by including covariates for mental ...
Given the small number of observations at my disposal, I present models with one covariate at a time and a control for government partisanship. Given that the independent variables are estimated in lagged changes, the number of observations in the analyses is slightly lower (N = 18). The Durbin-Watson statistic is reported at the bottom of the tabl...
In England public concern about mental health increased by 11 percentage points in 2017, with 32% of the English public considering mental health as the most worrying public health issue, second only to cancer (at 41%) (Ipsos Public Affairs 2017). English citizens have been expressing an extremely high and stable level support for more spending on ...
This article offered a roadmap for research on the political representation of mental health by focusing on decades of research on the relationship between public opinion and public policy. Though not exhaustive, the article set forth a wide number of research questions involving mental health and political (especially policy-based) representation ...
The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/Supplementary Material, further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding author.
The author declares that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
The empirical part of this paper was presented at the “Democracy, Elections and Citizenship” (DEC) Workshop at the Universitat de Barcelona (July 3, 2018) and at the Comparative Agendas Project annual conference in Amsterdam (4–6 July 2018). I thank the participants for their comments. I also thank Christopher Wlezien, Robert Johns, Stefanie Reher,...
The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpos.2020.587588/full#supplementary-material.
- Luca Bernardi
- 2021
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Dec 3, 2021 · Advocacy is an important means of raising awareness on mental health issues and ensuring that mental health is on the national agenda of governments. Advocacy can lead to improvements in policy, legislation, and service development.
Advocate for Change. Jump To. NAMI's Federal Advocacy. Take Action. Tell Your Story. Vote4MentalHealth. You have the power to change how decision makers support people with mental health conditions. Your personal story is always right — and it can change the hearts and minds of policymakers.
Apr 9, 2024 · Mental health advocacy is what addresses the vital need to promote the rights of individuals with mental illness. It focuses on increasing access to mental health services and combating stigma and discrimination. Efforts to change policies and develop effective programs that bolster mental health happen at the local, state, and national levels.
Jun 24, 2020 · What Does It Mean to Be a Mental Health Advocate? June 24, 2020. By Kristen Fuller, M.D. Mental health encompasses our emotional health, cognitive health and relationships. It includes taking care of and protecting ourselves so we can succeed in everyday life, taking care of others when they need us the most and overcoming obstacles.
Jul 1, 2022 · Providing mental health support to HCWs was identified as a priority, in order to mitigate negative psychological outcomes and to sustain the health care workforce. Numerous researchers and health systems developed new programs and structures geared toward increasing resilience and well-being of HCWs ( 7 ).
