ArticleInternational journal of health policy and management2014
Cross-national diffusion of mental health policy.
Article in International journal of health policy and management, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Policy diffusion theory, evidence-informed public health, and public health political science: a scoping review.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2023Article
- Mental health policy adoption as a seminal event: A response to recent commentaries.International journal of health policy and management · 2015Article
- Whither mental health policy-where does it come from and does it go anywhere useful?: Comment on "Cross-national diffusion of mental health policy".International journal of health policy and management · 2015Article
- Diffusion of innovation in mental health policy adoption: what should we ask about the quality of policy and the role of stakeholders in this process? Comment on "Cross-national diffusion of mental health policy".International journal of health policy and management · 2015Article
- Institutionalization of deinstitutionalization: a cross-national analysis of mental health system reform.International journal of mental health systems · 2014Article
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Abstract
backgroundFollowing the tenets of world polity and innovation diffusion theories, I focus on the coercive and mimetic forces that influence the diffusion of mental health policy across nations. International organizations' mandates influence government behavior. Dependency on external resources, namely foreign aid, also affects governments' formulation of national policy. And finally, mounting adoption in a region alters the risk, benefits, and information associated with a given policy.
methodsI use post-war, discrete time data spanning 1950 to 2011 and describing 193 nations' mental health systems to test these diffusion mechanisms.
resultsI find that the adoption of mental health policy is highly clustered temporally and spatially. RESULTS provide support that membership in the World Health Organization (WHO), interdependence with neighbors and peers in regional blocs, national income status, and migrant sub-population are responsible for isomorphism. Aid, however, is an insufficient determinant of mental health policy adoption.
conclusionThis study examines the extent to which mental, neurological, and substance use disorder are addressed in national and international contexts through the lens of policy diffusion theory. It also adds to policy dialogues about non-communicable diseases as nascent items on the global health agenda.
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