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Evaluations in mental health services: some methodological considerations
Author(s) -
YUEN F.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of nursing management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.925
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1365-2834
pISSN - 0966-0429
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2834.1994.tb00170.x
Subject(s) - mental health , function (biology) , psychology , nursing , health services , public relations , service (business) , outcome (game theory) , service delivery framework , mental health service , business , applied psychology , medicine , psychiatry , marketing , political science , environmental health , economics , population , mathematical economics , evolutionary biology , biology
Most health organizations evaluate policies and programmes periodically. Mental health services, without exception, also need to examine their established practices with particular concern about their propriety and effectiveness. As mental health services are coming under increasing pressure to function as self‐evaluating organizations that carefully link planning, service delivery and assessment, choices must be made regarding which evaluative strategies are most relevant to the development of mental health services. This paper examines some of the methodological issues in the outcome evaluations in mental health services