This book provides updated coverage on the mental health systems in Eastern and Central Europe. Based on up-to-date data, field visits and case studies, the chapters present the financing, organization and public policy issues of Eastern and Central European countries. Solutions are also proposed to tackle major mental health problems facing the region. Mental Health in Central and Eastern Europe is a valuable reference for stakeholders in the mental health communities.
Sample Chapter(s)
CHAPTER 1: Introduction to Central and Eastern Europe
Contents:
- Introduction to Central and Eastern Europe (Grayson Dimick and Richard M Scheffler)
- An Overview of Mental Health in Albania (Ermelinda Durmishi, Jonila Gabrani, and Ariel Como)
- An Overview of Mental Health in Bulgaria (Georgi Hranov and Maria Stoyanova)
- An Overview of Mental Health in the Czech Republic (Eva Tušková, Karolína Dobiášová, and Ivan Duškov)
- An Overview of Mental Health in Moldova (Cornelia Iacubovschi, Jana Chihai, and Larisa Boderscova)
- An Overview of Mental Health in Romania (Raluca Sfetcu and Marius Ungureanu)
- An Overview of Mental Health in Serbia (Aleksandra Milićević Kalašić, Olga Kalašić Vidović, and Ivana Anđelković)
- The Way Forward: Improving Mental Health Systems in Central and Eastern Europe (Richard M Scheffler, Grayson Dimick, and Ivan Duškov)
Readership: Policy makers, government officials, private sector stakeholders, and researchers in mental health systems around the globe.
Richard M Scheffler is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Health Economics and Public Policy and Professor of the Graduate School at the School of Public Health and the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the Director of the Petris Center for Healthcare Markets and Consumer Welfare endowed by the Office of the Attorney General for the State of California in 1999. Dr Scheffler has been a visiting scholar at the World Bank, the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio and has been a Fulbright Scholar at Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile in Santiago, Chile, as well as Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. In 2013 he was awarded the Chair of Excellence Award at the Carlos III University of Madrid. In 2016 he was also awarded the Astor Visiting Fellowship by Oxford University. He is an elected president in 2003 of the International Health Economists Association and is an elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance.
Martha Shumway, PhD is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco and is on the faculty of the department's Clinical Psychology and Clinical Services Research Training Programs. Dr Shumway holds a doctorate in quantitative psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. She has worked in mental health services research for over 30 years, studying services for persons with severe mental illness and other underserved populations, with a focus on measurement and methodology. She recently completed service as Associate Statistical Editor for the Journal of Traumatic Stress. Her current work focuses on trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder and on disparities in acute psychiatric care.
Rǎzvan M Chereches, PhD is a professor of public health at Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania. He founded what is now the best school of public health in Cluj-Napoca, Romania — the Silicon Valley of Eastern Europe — with an innovative market-driven projects-based educational program. He is a passionate capacity building expert in the field of evidence-based health policy, working tirelessly across Southern and Eastern Europe, West-Central Asia and Northern Africa. He is currently renewing his ever-failed promise to his family and to himself to travel less.