Key areas for action

National ownership
Develop advocacy groups
Address stigma
Increase funding
Build care capacity
Build community services
Professional training
More treatment options
Engage carers & patients
Better data
Issues
Action plan
Resources
Tool: data to use
Questions to ask
Measures of success
Footnotes
Measures of success
Mental health - summary of key points

Better data > issues

Mental health information systems are essential? yet frequently neglected in health service management and health information systems.¹

• A Mental Health Information System (MHIS) and high quality data are vital to the improvement of coherency of planning, implementation and evaluation of policy.
• MHIS should, where possible, be integrated into general health information systems.2
• Clear responsibilities must be allocated for data collection at a national registries and provision of data from service providers
• Planners should consider a progressive development of an information system, and not attempt to design the entire MHIS in detail from the outset.3