Joint Action to support best practice implementation in the area of mental health
JA ImpleMental
2021.10.01 – 2024.09.30
About the project
The aim of the Joint Action is to support the Member States of the European Union in introducing best practices that develop and promote the mental health and well-being of the population and their care. In addition, a key objective is to ensure the effectiveness of mental health care through innovative solutions. The JA focuses on two best practices, a reform of the Belgian health care system and an Austrian best practice in the field of suicide prevention.
The aim of these best practices it to demonstrate to the Member States the development of innovative and sustainable mental health care systems and services, and the importance of multi-level prevention networks.
The primary aspects of the work:
- Capacity building in healthcare
- Real and effective changes in the system
- Implementation of an integrated care model
- Cooperation between relevant stakeholders
- Increased guidance and cooperation between authorities at international, national and regional levels.
The two best practices proposed for implementation are:
- Mental health care delivery system reform, Belgium: provision of demand-driven residential care, integrated and patient-centered mental health care.
- Suicide Prevention Austria, SUPRA: a multi-level suicide prevention program.
Members
Consortium leader: Ethnikos Organismos Dimosias Ygeias (National Public Health Organisation, Greece)
Consortium members:
- AUSTRIAN FEDERAL MINISTRY OF SOCIAL AFFAIRS, HEALTH, CARE AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
- AUSTRIAN NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE – GESUNDHEIT ÖSTERREICH GMBH
- NATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND ANALYSIS
- CROATIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH
- MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES DIRECTORATE
- MINISTRY OF HEALTH OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- MINISTRY OF SOCIAL AFFAIRS
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH DEVELOPMENT
- FINNISH INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE
- MINISTRY OF SOLIDARITY AND HEALTH
- INSERM
- FEDERAL CENTRE FOR HEALTH EDUCATION
- NATIONAL HEALTHCARE SERVICE CENTER1
- SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY – HEALTH SERVICES MANAGEMENT TRAINING CENTRE
- UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN – THE FACULTY OF PUBLIC HEALTH
- DIRECTORATE OF HEALTH IN ICELAND
- LOMBARDY REGION
- LOCAL HEALTH AUTHORITY OF LECCO
- MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH
- POLITECNICO DI MILANO UNIVERSITY
- FATEBENEFRATELLI CENTER ” SAINT JOHN OF GOD” – BRESCIA
- BICOCCA UNIVERSITY, MILAN – DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS AND QUANTITATIVE METHODS
- MINISTRY OF HEALTH OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
- MINISTRY FOR HEALTH – MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
- TRIMBOS INSTITUTE
- MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND CARE SERVICES
- NORWEGIAN DIRECTORATE OF HEALTH
- NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH
- INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH OF SERBIA “DR MILAN JOVANOVIC BATUT”
- NACIONALNI INŠTITUT ZA JAVNO ZDRAVJE – NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH
- SERVICIO MURCIANO DE SALUD
- FUNDACIÓN PARA LA FORMACIÓN E INVESTIGACIÓN SANITARIAS DE LA REGIÓN DE MURCIA
- CONSEJERÍA DE MUJER, IGUALDAD, LGTBI, FAMILIAS Y POLÍTICA SOCIAL DE LA REGIÓN DE MURCIA
- SERVICIO ANDALUZ DE SALUD
- FUNDACIÓN PÚBLICA ANDALUZA PROGRESO Y SALUD
- SERVICIO NAVARRO DE SALUD-OSASUNBIDEA
- SERVICIO CATALÁN DE SALUD
- SERVICIO VASCO DE SALUD –OSAKIDETZA
- SERVICIO MADRILEÑO DE SALUD
- PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF SWEDEN
HSMTC contact
Name: Szilvia Adam, assistant professor
Phone: + 36 1 488 7613
e-mail: adam.szilvia@emk.semmelweis.hu