E-mental health: Minding the gap and empowering consumers

dc.contributor.authorGriffiths, Kathleen Margaret
dc.contributor.editorS Short
dc.contributor.editorF McDonald
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-12T00:43:56Z
dc.date.available2014-03-12T00:43:56Z
dc.date.issued2013-08
dc.date.updated2015-12-09T09:38:20Z
dc.description.abstractMuch of the e-mental health service innovation in Australia has originated within universities where researchers have not only developed online and mobile applications to deliver mental health services but have also carried out rigorous research to demonstrate their effectiveness. This development work is within the context of Australia’s high internet use. According to the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, as many as 79% of households in Australia have internet access and 92% of these are connected by broadband (ABS: 2012) Moreover, most households access the internet every day (ABS: 2012). To their credit, successive federal governments have been quick to recognise the potential of e-mental health. As a consequence, the Department of Health and Ageing has partly or fully funded the ongoing delivery of a number of e-mental health services. A key driver here has been the evidence that these programs work and are cost-effective especially given consistent findings that only onethird of Australians receive mental health help from the conventional health system.
dc.format2 pages
dc.identifier.citationGriffiths, K.M. (2013) E-mental health: Minding the gap and empowering consumers. In D. Singerman(Ed.), Perspectives: Mental Health and Wellbeing in Australia, 2013 (pp. 34-35) Australia: Mental Health Council of Australia
dc.identifier.isbn9780980700770
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/11448
dc.publisherMental Health Council of Australia
dc.relationhttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/525413
dc.relation.ispartofHealth Workforce Governance : Improved Access, Good Regulatory Practice, Safer Patients
dc.rights"The MHCA is happy to give permission to place Perspectives: Mental Health and Wellbeing in Australia, 2013 into the ANU 'open access' institutional repository." From Publisher's Email on 12/03/2014
dc.source.urihttps://mhca.org.au/sites/default/files/docs/mhca_perspectives_mental_health_and_wellbeing_in_australia_publication.pdfen_AU
dc.titleE-mental health: Minding the gap and empowering consumers
dc.typeBook chapter
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage35
local.bibliographicCitation.placeofpublicationSurrey United Kingdom
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage34
local.contributor.affiliationGriffiths, Kathleen Margaret, Australian National University
local.contributor.authoremailkathy.griffiths@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidu8406985en_AU
local.identifier.absfor111714 - Mental Health
local.identifier.absseo920410 - Mental Health
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4146231xPUB290
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu5227095en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://mhca.org.au/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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