Getting mental health reform back on track: a leadership challenge for the new Australian Government

Dignam, Paul

doi:10.5694/mja14.00712

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To the Editor: I am not sure that mental health reform was ever “on track”, so getting it back there is a considerable challenge. Hickie and colleagues' aspirational document reads well,1 but I am not sure of its basis in reality.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, Women's and Children's Health Network, Adelaide, SA.

Correspondence: paul.dignam@health.sa.gov.au

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1. Hickie IB, McGorry PD, Davenport TA, et al. Getting mental health reform back on track: a leadership challenge for the new Australian Government. Med J Aust 2014; 200: 445-448. <MJA full text>
2. Scott EM, Hermens DF, Glozier N, et al. Targeted primary care-based mental health services for young Australians. Med J Aust 2012; 196: 136-140. <MJA full text>
3. Scott A, Guo B. For which strategies of suicide prevention is there evidence of effectiveness? World Health Organization Health Evidence Network synthesis report. Copenhagen: WHO, 2012. http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/noncommunicable-diseases/mental-health/publications/2012/for-which-strategies-of-suicide-prevention-is-there-evidence-of-effectiveness (accessed Aug 2014).

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