Supporting the vulnerable: developing a strategic community mental health response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Author(s) -
Sumana Thomson,
Trung Doan,
Dennis Liu,
Klaus Oliver Schubert,
Julian Toh,
Mark Boyd,
Cherrie Galletly
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
australasian psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.444
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1440-1665
pISSN - 1039-8562
DOI - 10.1177/1039856220944701
Subject(s) - pandemic , public health , mental health , covid-19 , medicine , strategic planning , population , medical emergency , environmental health , nursing , psychiatry , business , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , pathology , marketing
The COVID-19 pandemic poses significant risks to the vulnerable patient population supported by community mental health (CMH) teams in South Australia. This paper describes a plan developed to understand and mitigate these risks.
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