Mental Health Policy of Australia: Promoting Mental Health and Preventing Mental Illness

Social Policy and Social work

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Description
Mental illness is a disease which causes the disturbance in thought and behaviour that results
is an inability to survive with the demands and routines of life. Mental health problem is
related to the excessive stress due to some reasons such as personal issues and many others.
Cancer, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, depression and the others diseases are also a
reason mental illness. There are many other factors which the mind of a person and cause the
mental illness such as genetic factors, biochemical imbalance, and environmental stress.
There are 200 types of mental illness from which some types are very common disorders
such as, dementia, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety disorders and many others (Biringer,
Davidson, Sundfør, Lier, and Borg, 2016). The main reason of mental illness is the
environmental stress which affects the mind of people. Changing in mood, personality and
personal habits are the symptoms of mental issue which also affect the mental health
conditions. The government make the policies which helps to resolve or reduce this issues.
Mental health policy is the policy which is made by the government to reduce these issues. In
this report, the discussion will be made on the topic of Mental Health policy of Australia.
Background
Mental health Policy is a step which is taken by the Australian government to promote the
mental health and prevent the people from mental illness. The main aim is to develop this
policy is to prevent the people from mental illness or to recover the patient from mental
illness. It also promote desegregation, destigmatization and ensure socio-economic and other
factors from which the people affected such as providing affordable quality of health and
social care to all the person and patients through within a right based framework (Kageyama,
Nakamura, Kobayashi, and Yokoyama, 2016). The main objective of Australian government
is to provide the universal access to mental health care. It helps the people in stable there

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mind. It has been seen that the people take wrong step in this type of mental issues such as
suicide and attempted suicide. It is a biggest reason of increasing the death rate of the country
and to reduce this government of Australia take steps towards this issue (Ducat, Rubenstein,
Philipson, and Anderson, 2015). The government of Australia set the goal of this policy is to
improve the understanding of the mental health in the country. Government of Australia
identify the social, biological and psychological determinents which affects the mental health
problems to provide the appropriate intervention. The death rate of Australia is 71 %of male
and 76% of Female. It probably increasing that is why the government of Australia take the
initiative to reduce the death rate of the country (Hooper, Foster, Knuiman, and Giles-Corti,
2018).
The fifth national mental health plan is currently being developed by the Australian Health
Minister Advisory Council. In this plan the government promote the mental health drug and
Alcohol Principal Committee to reduce these issues. the main objecrive and main goal of
Australan government to made this mental health policy is to promote the mental heal of
Australains.