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Mental health services conceptualised as complex adaptive systems: what can be learned?

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Mental Health Systems, June 2017
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Title
Mental health services conceptualised as complex adaptive systems: what can be learned?
Published in
International Journal of Mental Health Systems, June 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13033-017-0150-6
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Authors

Louise A. Ellis, Kate Churruca, Jeffrey Braithwaite

Abstract

Despite many attempts at promoting systems integration, seamless care, and partnerships among service providers and users, mental health services internationally continue to be fragmented and piecemeal. We exploit recent ideas from complexity science to conceptualise mental health services as complex adaptive systems (CASs). The core features of CASs are described and Australia's headspace initiative is used as an example of the kinds of problems currently being faced. We argue that adopting a CAS lens can transform services, creating more connected care for service users with mental health conditions.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 1%
Unknown 81 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 18 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 15%
Student > Master 7 9%
Student > Bachelor 5 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 6%
Other 11 13%
Unknown 24 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 15 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 10%
Psychology 8 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 5%
Other 11 13%
Unknown 25 30%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 February 2020.
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#6,273,343
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#352
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#90,163
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Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Mental Health Systems
#6
of 10 outputs
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