A5018699216- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Elder Abuse and Neglect
Ministry of Health
2022-2025
Ghana Health Service
2024
Abstract Background In 2012, Ghana ratified the United Nations Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities and enacted a Mental Health Act to improve quality mental health care stop human rights violations against people conditions. line these objectives, Ghanaian stakeholders collected data services respect for in psychiatric facilities identify challenges gather useful information development plans aimed offered. This study assess from different regions provide evidence services....
Background Globally, human rights violations experienced by persons with psychosocial, intellectual or cognitive disabilities continue to be a concern. The World Health Organization's (WHO) QualityRights initiative presents practical remedies address these abuses. This paper an overview of the implementation in Ghana. Aims main objective Ghana was train and change attitudes among wide range stakeholders promote recovery respect for people disabilities. Method Reports in-person online...
Abstract Background There are currently major efforts underway in Ghana to address stigma and discrimination, promote the human rights of those with mental health conditions, within services community, working World Health Organization’s QualityRights initiative. The present study aims investigate attitudes towards people lived experience conditions psychosocial disabilities as holders. Methods Stakeholders Ghanaian system including professionals, policy makers, persons experience, completed...
Instruments to assess the knowledge about rights of persons with mental health conditions and psychosocial disabilities, attitudes toward their role as holders, professionals' practices related substitute decision-making coercion are either missing or lack evaluation validity reliability.
Abstract Aim HOPE (National Institute for Health and Care Research Global Group on Homelessness Mental in Africa) aims to develop evaluate interventions that address the unmet needs of people who are homeless have severe mental illness (SMI) living three African countries ways rights-based, contextually grounded, scalable sustainable. Methods We will work capital city (Addis Ababa) Ethiopia, a regional (Tamale) Ghana, (Nairobi) rural county (Makueni) Kenya understand different approaches...