Plenary 1: The Hospital – A Staff Empowering ... - HPH-Conference

Parallel Sessions
Pre-conference: Wednesday, April 11, 2007, 10.00-17.00
Pre-conference of the Task
Force on Health Promoting Psychiatric
Health Care Services
(Wednesday, April 11, 10.00-
17.00)
Scope and programme
The pre-conference shall function as an agora for those who
work on health promotion within psychiatric health care. It
allows more intense discussions than within the main conference
and addresses thematic points of the main conference,
which should be more precisely understood in the field of
mental health care.
So one of the objectives of the pre-conference is to discuss
the concepts of quality of care and quality of life; but our work
will be not only conceptual. We also want to encourage our
skills in working on HPH-projects, so we will have a second part
in which we will look upon ongoing and planned project work in
psychiatric HP-work.
Part I: Making tools and concepts of HPH understandable
and more useful: “What do we mean when we talk
about quality of life and quality of care in psychiatric
health care?”
� Methods: keynote, group discussion
� Outcome: cleared concepts, papers on the concept of
quality of life and adaptation of HPH standards to psychiatric
services
� Keynote/input 1: Reform of Mental Health Care and public
attitudes: Analysis of time trends and international comparison
(Prof. Dr. Angermeyer, Vienna)
� Keynote/input 2: Are suicide-rates useful indicators to
measure the quality of mental health care? (Prof. Dr. Rutz,
Uppsala)
� Keynote/input 3: Quality of care – adaption of the HPH
standards to psychiatric health care (Prof. Dr. H. Berger,
Riedstadt, Speaker of the standard group, Taskforce Health
Promoting Psychiatric Services)
Part II: Going into practical health promoting work in
psychiatric health care
1. Window of good practice: Who is interested to have their
ongoing HPH project within psychiatric health care broadly
presented and intensively discussed?
2. Window of conceptualisation: Who is interested in presenting
his / her institution and idea for a future project?
� Methods: fair guided discussion, group work
� Outcome: feedback on the ongoing project or the project
idea/expert-evaluation of the project/recommendations for
the further work
Part II of the pre-conference is open for all, who want to present
their own Health Promoting Work; the projects for II.1
should not have been closed, aim and objective of the project
and the work done so far should be presented; the presentation
for part II.2 should concern planned projects, the organistion
in which the project will be implemented should be described,
so to speak the why and what of the project idea
Contact
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Berger, Eva-Maria Heimsath, Dr. Rainer Paul
D-64560 Riedstadt
Germany
Hartmut.Berger@zsp-philippshospital.de
Promotion as the core principle in
Mental Health Care planning and
practice. The experience of Italian
region Emilia-Romagna
Angelo Fioritti
Mental Health Promotion is often quoted as a key principle in
most European health policies, though rarely defined in action
plans and in practice. The deinstitutionalization process which
has shifted in many European countries the balance of care
from the hospital to the community has meant dealing with the
issue of what means promoting mental health in the community.
Given the process of devolution occurred in Italy regional
councils have now large autonomy in drawing policies and in
adopting different strategies in health promotion. Regione
Emilia-Romagna (a 4 millions inhabitant area in Northern Italy) is
finalising a mental health policy based on few key points:
� involvement of users and carers association in all processes
of care (planning, implementation, evaluation);
� further reduction of inpatient care and shift of resources to
outpatient care;
� investment in child mental health care;
� careful choice of rehabilitation models and practices;
� full integration of health and social care;
� social communication and stigma prevention.
This presentation will give examples on how each of the objectives
is implemented.
Contact
Dr. Angelo FIORITTI
Regione Emilia-Romagna – Assessorato Politiche per la Salute
Responsabile Servizio Salute Mentale, Dipendenze Patologiche
e Salute nelle Carceri
Viale Aldo Moro 21
40132 Bologna
ITALY
+39 051 639 72 62
afioritti@regione.emilia-romagna.it
References
1. Fioritti A, Lo Russo L, Melega V. The Reform, Said or Done?
The Case of Emilia-Romagna within the Italian Psychiatric
Context. The American Journal of Psychiatry 1997, 154:1,
94-98.
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