Enhancing National Mental Health: Organization and Resource Allocation

This essay explores the critical relationship between mental health and national success, emphasizing the importance of organizational improvements over increased expenditure in the healthcare sector. The author argues that focusing on better organization within healthcare systems, rather than simply increasing financial investments, is key to enhancing the mental wellbeing of a nation. The essay highlights the detrimental effects of poor mental health, citing statistics on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations in Australia as an example, and points out the ineffectiveness of current spending patterns. It proposes strategies such as improving working environments, implementing suicide prevention programs, and providing mental health training as effective alternatives. The conclusion reinforces the need for organizational changes to promote mental wellbeing and improve overall national health outcomes. The essay uses references to support its arguments.

To improve the mental health
of the nation we need better
organisation not more
expenditure

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REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

‘To improve the mental health of the nation we need better organisation not
more expenditure’
Mental health is the key factor of nation’s success because it includes emotional, social and
psychological wellbeing. It affects the way how individual think, feel and act. It also supports
identify how the people deals with stress, relate to other and make choices. Mental health is
essential at every stage of life such as from childhood and adolescence through adulthood.
According to Kilbourne and et.al., (2018), it is important for the nation to put high attention over
healthcare organization in order to make them better instead of expenditure. When a healthcare
company is better and health providers are too much dedicated to offer best care service that
ultimately improves mental health of them then there is no need to expenditure. Allen and et.al.,
(2014) said in their published articles that from the long period of time, Australia’s patchwork of
system had brought to a poor situation, whereas people experience mental illness and do not
receive any type of support which they need ad whereas government receives gets poor return
over the substantial investment. Such situation rises from a combination of the problems with the
status quo. Around 3% of the Australian population (approx. 670,000 people) determine as being
of Aboriginal or Torres Islander origin are facing bad mental health. It has highlighted by
Johnson and et.al., (2018) in their research articles that the rate of deaths from suicide of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australian was twice as compared non-indigenous
Australians. However, non-indigenous Australian has three times death rate between age of 25-
34. The reason behind of this is mental stress which is arise from high rates of chronic disease,
unemployment, disease, family breakdown, smoking etc. Most of the Australians are taking
treatment of mental illness but do not get better results. Due to this issue, Australian’s
government also invest huge amount over the common health companies but in exchange gets
poorer results. Among 27% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults who have plead the
report they were facing high level of psychological distress in 2008 while 30% were not able to
carry out their normal activities for the particular period of time due to their feelings (Report of
the National Review of Mental Health Programmes and Services, 2014). While Esses,
Hamilton and Gaucher, (2017) sated in their books that Mental Health Commission of NSW
reported that mental ill health directly impact on economy and productivity of the country
negatively. It denotes that Australia requires to make better organizations like private sectors for

the people that ultimately maintains their mental wellbeing and keeps them proactive at the
workplace in that state Australian government do not have to invest huge capital over the
healthcare organizations to improve Australian’s mental health. There are various strategies like
improving working environment of the public sectors, suicidal prevention programs, mental
wellbeing campaigns, MH training team for the MH client, care plan for the MH patients etc.
that will help to make better organization instead of investing huge amount to improve
infrastructure of the company. It is essential for the small- and large-scale companies to increase
the service and professional responses by listening to people’s views about suicidal feelings
based on the views can offer therapeutic care to them by the caregivers and professionals which
will mental wellbeing of Australian people’s in Australia. From the above discussion has been
summarized that we require better organization for improving mental wellbeing of nation instead
of expenditure.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Kilbourne, A.M and et.al., 2018. Measuring and improving the quality of mental health care: a
global perspective. World psychiatry, 17(1), pp.30-38.
Allen, J and et.al., 2014. Social determinants of mental health. International review of
psychiatry, 26(4), pp.392-407.
Johnson, J and et.al., 2018. Mental healthcare staff well‐being and burnout: A narrative review of
trends, causes, implications, and recommendations for future
interventions. International journal of mental health nursing, 27(1), pp.20-32.
Esses, V.M., Hamilton, L.K. and Gaucher, D., 2017. The global refugee crisis: Empirical
evidence and policy implications for improving public attitudes and facilitating refugee
resettlement. Social Issues and Policy Review, 11(1), pp.78-123.
Online
Report of the National Review of Mental Health Programmes and Services. 2014. [Online].
Available Through:- <https://mhfa.com.au/sites/default/files/vol2-review-mh-
programmes-services.pdf>