Mental health policy and practice across Europe: an overview

Acknowledgements
This volume is part of a series of books produced by the European Observatory
on Health Systems and Policies. We are very grateful to the authors who wrote
the chapters and later amended them following several rounds of rigorous
discussions and comments from colleagues and peer-reviewing by external
referees.
We particularly appreciate the detailed and very constructive comments of
the chief reviewers, Norman Sartorius and Richard Warner. We would also like
to thank Pierre Alexandre, Dan Chisholm, Christine Godfrey, David Goldberg,
Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra, Walter Holland, Clemens Huitink, Judith Klein, Judy
Laing, Oliver Lewis, Joanna Murray, Steve Platt, Luis Salvador and Kristian
Wahlbeck for comments on particular chapters. We would also like to acknowledge
helpful information received from Roxana Radulescu and Jarno Habicht
and thank Ingrid Zechmeister and Vidar Halsteinli for providing the case study
material in Chapter 4.
The Observatory is especially grateful to the Norwegian Directorate for Health
and Social Affairs for hosting the Authors’ Workshop on 12–13 September 2003.
Special thanks are extended to Bjorn Inge Larsen, Director General of the
Norwegian Directorate for Health and Social Affairs and to Christine Furuholmen
and Olav Valen Slättebrekk, principal coordinators of the workshop, as well
as Brit Torill Gutbier and Berit Kolberg Rossiné for their central roles in its
organization.
In addition to all the authors at the Workshop who provided detailed feedback
on each other’s chapters, special thanks are extended to Arlid Gjertsen,
Reinhold Killian, Thorleif Ruud and Arman Vardanyan for useful comments.