The Fifth National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Plan Report

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of Australia's Fifth National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Plan. It begins with an introduction to the importance of mental health and the role of policy in addressing mental illness and promoting well-being. The report delves into the purpose of the policy, which aims to improve mental health services and prevent suicide. It explores the determinants of health, including social factors that contribute to mental illness, and examines the health issues addressed by the plan, such as mental illness and suicide, particularly among younger generations. A literature review provides context, and the report then details the implementation strategies, including the formation of committees and the promotion of services. The report also covers health promotion strategies, such as educational programs and community outreach. The plan's focus on integrated approaches, prevention, and support for individuals with mental health issues is highlighted throughout, underscoring the importance of addressing mental health challenges at multiple levels. The report references key studies and sources to support its analysis.

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Table of Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................2
Policy and its purpose........................................................................................................................2
Determinants of Health.........................................................................................................................3
Health issue.......................................................................................................................................4
Literature review...................................................................................................................................6
Implementation.....................................................................................................................................8
Health Promotion..................................................................................................................................9
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................................12
References.................................................................................................................................13

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Introduction
Health is very important for everyone’s life and it is important to promote health to
ensure better health services are delivered to people. Plans and policies are designed for
improving the health conditions and promoting good health care services in the community.
Policies are launched by government with the perception of improving political, spiritual, and
economic conditions. It is essential to maintain health of every individual as positive changes
in health directly contributes to growth of country. Health promotion and health policies are
designed for betterment of an individual by reducing the risk and making the community free
from pain.
Living patterns are changing day by day and services to improve health are also
modified. Various policies are designed to create awareness in the society and improving the
health condition by showcasing the path that can be followed for better health. In this report
considering the issue of mental illness and the policy designed by government for betterment
(National Center for Health Statistics , 2016).
Policy and its purpose
There are various health issues but in this report considering the case of mental health,
government of Australia has designed unique policies to make sure that every individual
attains good health (Clement, et. al, 2015). ‘Fifth National Mental Health and Suicide
Prevention Plan’ was implemented with the purpose of achieving integrity in planning and
delivering services to prevent suicide and mental illness. Improving physical health of people
contributes in reducing mental illness of people (Stanley, Hom & Joiner, 2015). It ensures
that effective system is designed to improve performance in every field. The sole reason of

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this policy is to achieve efficient and suitable mental health system to improve the services
delivered to people in Australia.
It can be stated that more than four million people in Australia are suffering from
Mental illness and is increasing day by day (Patel, et. al, 2016). Mental health affects the
social and economic consequences of the country. Thus sustainable approaches are designed
to improve the life by removing the illness by targeting people. The key issues arise due to
lack of planning and coordination and no optimal solutions are available beforehand. Thus
polices are designed to remove the social burden of mental illness. The Fifth National Mental
Health and Suicide Prevention Plan focuses on responsibilities of promoting mental health for
supporting the care. It links the fund facilities of the state with the mental health environment.
As there are many people who cannot afford the prevention methods thus these policies
solves the issue by proving benefits to control the disabilities from mental illness Sareen, et.
al, 2016).
Australian government have outlined various issues regarding the mental health plans
which are implemented to improve the conditions in an efficient way. These plans remove the
stigma of mental health and supports people to live a healthy life (Gould, et. al, 2018). The
Fifth National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Plan showcase the complexities and
reasons of mental health system. This policy is designed to improve the outcomes of mental
illness to ensure that proper actions are taken at ground level to avoid mental illness (Nyer, et.
al, 2015). It identifies the main reasons for development of mental health so that programs
and services are designed to deliver awareness among target people in an integrated manner.
It analyse the existing reasons for development of mental illness and improves services by
offering appropriate prevention method (Hom, et. al, 2016).

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Determinants of Health
There are various social determinants regarding mental illness which can be resolved
by fifth national mental health and suicide prevention plan. This policy is very important as it
deals with complete with the major issue of mental illness. This plan treats the mental illness
on property note as they directly affects the lifestyle of an individual. It is a complex issue as
it disturbs the ability to behave normally (Adler, et. al, 2016). Social factors are also the
reason for mental illness, as there is a lot of discrimination caused by society which leads to
depression in one’s life. Complexity of mental illness arouse from stress taken by an
individual. This policy designed by Australian government is important as it promotes the
positive outcomes of mental health by removing the bad experiences that may cause mental
illness (Spijkeret. al, 2015).
This policy along with mental illness deals with suicidal problems, which is mostly
seen in younger people. As now a days people are found to attempt suicide for any reason
thus this policy keep follow up of the reasons and prevent people to attempt future suicide.
This policy includes various elements for prevention of mental illness ad suicidal cases.
 It integrates areas by examining the issues and delivering proper care in each area.
 Primary health networks are established in each area to make plans regarding mental
health issues and designing measures to control suicide.
 After designing the plans it’s significant to promote the invention to reduce the impact
of illness in people lives (Van Brunt, 2017). It adopted the use digital technologies to
identify the key concern and taking proper actions.
Health issue
There are various health issues which are addressed by the fifth national mental health
policy. Mental illness is even risky as compared to any physical illness, thus there is a need of

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treating it critically and immediately (Brownson, et. al, 2017). Mental health and suicide is a
self-injury that is caused by an individual especially seen among youth. This policy monitors
the people on their suicidal behaviour so that an individual do not commit suicide. Stress is
the main reason for mental illness and in future leads to depression and negativity. It is
difficult to recognize that a person is suffering from mental illness or not. To resolve this
issue certain polices are deployed (Uneke, et. al, 2015). It causes cognitive or relational
impairment on human and also affects the emotions, feeling as well as thoughts of an
individual. These issues are resolved by dealing with these problems and making strong
social connections.
Health issues are resolved by using certain health promotion strategies that helps in
attaining healthy environment (Patel, et. al, 2016). This can be done by combination of two
activities that is health education and environmental actions. In this policy mental illness and
suicide is commonly seen among younger generation. To resolve both these issues children’s
are facilitated with proper knowledge regarding the behaviours they need to adopt to make
healthy changes. Various educational programs are directed for the youth giving them
instructions and interactive information about the issues. For children’s health programs are
delivered in schools focusing on the health attitudes skills and behaviour to attain a healthy
status. As mental illness and suicide is seen among younger children’s thus programs are
launched in schools, child care institutes, high schools, colleges and universities. The aim of
this policy is to find the major causes of the mental illness and how it could be prevented.
The purpose of this policy is to access the issue and cultivate an appropriate plan for
removing the health inequalities from the society. Thus programs that are implemented by the
national mental health plan deliver proper care to the patients (Wahlbeck, 2015). Also suicide
is majorly observed among younger children therefore motivational programs are launched at
schools level, to increase the positive energy among them. The aim of the health policy is to

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remove the health issue and attain healthy environment. Other than that these policies are of
no use if it is not addressed to wider population. Hence plans are invented by launching new
activities to provide best services to patients. It also ensures that health inequalities are
removed from the society like depression, stress among individual. This is done by
empowering an individual about the importance of healthy lifestyle.
Literature review
According to (Edelman, Mandle & Kudzma, 2017), fifth national mental health and
suicide prevention plan is important as it creates secure physical environment to remove the
shortcomings of health issue. It impacts the environmental conditions by providing solution
for rehabilitation. It also states reason for developing mental health to avoid poverty, stress
and inequality. It helps in minimizing the disabilities of mental health by promoting rapid
recovery from the issue. Plans are developed to remove social inequalities from the society
by building plans that links society issues with government measures to improve the health
condition.
In the views of (O'connor, et. al, 2017), mental determinates and suicidal cases need to be
improved as the main reason of mental illness is low education facilities, unemployment
status or isolation from the society. These are the reasons for mental illness in the society
which are addressed by this policy. It empowers communities to take appropriate actions for
improving public health.
According to (Garg, et. al, 2015), the priority area of this policy is designing an appropriate
plan that covers the treatment methods to resolve complex mental illness by removing the
mortality issue from the initial stage. This policy is very important in Australia as it makes
safety and quality central service plans by delivering improved facilities.

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In the view of (McClure, et. al, 2018), fifth national mental health policy monitors the issues
and implements new plans by promoting the role of achieving the best possible suicidal and
mental health prevention. It is a link between territory government of Australia and the
organisation that are managing health welfare to provide better opportunities to the people.
According to (Wallerstein, 2010), this policy is designed as an integrated approach to
improve the healthcare of an individual. This model guide an individual to practices best
health care services and supports health economics of patients by contributing funds. Suicide
prevention programs are also launched to provide proper access to all the community that
support participant’s by clinical traits. This policy basically throws light on maintaining
safety and quality in mental health care, monitoring and reporting on reform progress,
observing physical health of people living with mental health issues, suicide prevention
methods, developing treatment and support for societies with severe and complex mental
illness is achieved by integrated regional planning and service delivery.
According to (Rogers, et. al, 2017), effectiveness of prevention programs has contributed in
reducing the suicidal rates. As this policy has designed inventions to reduce the risk that are
identified by world health organisation. Thus it plays a significant role by demonstrating the
issues at school level by providing necessary plans. It showcases the harmful effects and
evidence that shows the problem associated between suicidal behaviour and trauma. This
policy includes assessing and managing suicide risk and has deployed many clinics for
mental health. Proper planning have done regarding suicide Prevention by community
leaders. This is done by providing proper training to the one who have tried to commit
suicide. This policy has been online course available to attain suicide prevention.

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Implementation
The implementation of fifth plan strategy involves certain actions:
1. A committee is designed for reporting the suicide prevention plans. It represents the
target audience who is facing these issue and their respective reasons.
2. It represents common wealth communities by designing an appropriate mechanisms
for prevention.
3. In this step priority area is selected and the planning is done for preventions. It
considers regular implantation and monitoring of the issues in the society.
4. Once the role of customers is recognized it promotes the services to the people so that
they are aware about the drawbacks and risk associated with the disease.
5. It delivers annual report to health commission team so that progress is analysed and
new baselines can be identified and established.

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6. It develop long term plans to improve the performance by creating new prevention
plans.
Various strategies are designed by this policy is development of vulnerable children’s so that
they start a healthy life. Mental health can be minimized by offering better physical health
this can be achieved by promoting issues of long term mental illness, expressing about the
causes of drugs and the reasons by which mental illness happen. This policy focuses on good
mental health wellbeing by improving social and community participation of the individual
suffering from mental illness. As the main reason of mental health I depression, stress or
felling of isolation (Blank, Burau & Kuhlmann, 2017). Thus this policy makes sure that
individual get involves in the social activities. Apart from that this policy has launched
effective care supports to change the mental perception of an individual by focusing on the
positive experiences. In allow population to access mental care from the community service
care centres.
There are certain factors that influence the mental health of a person to improve the
metal illness of individual physical activities are promoted as it improves the quality of life.
Apart from that good nutrition’s diet influence in prevention of mental illness by removing
depression. There are several mental issues that cause heart disease and other dangerous
risks.
Health Promotion
It is researched that mental health problem and suicidal problems is seen in younger
people. So to improve the performance health promotion is used as it promotes good health
condition by filling the gap between issues and disease patterns. Actions are taken to remove
the inequalities from the society and by empowering people to remove the vulnerability.
Many mental health groups are established to reach to these individuals and remove the

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problem from their life. It is necessary to promote the services provided by the communities
for better mental health because people are not aware about the services provided by these
communities. Government has launched various facilities for betterment of an individual.
To attain good health numerous actions are taken by building healthy health policy
that creates a supportive environment. Health policy not only contributes in strengthening the
community action but also helps in developing personal skills for reorienting health services.
These policies make the work easy by helping everyone to make healthy decisions.
Collective actions of community also play a significant role in improving health of
community (Braveman & Gottlieb, 2014). . Government of Australia have established
certain communities that encourages people to eat healthy, stay fit by running more to avoid
mental health issues. The health system which was used before is traditional that only focuses
on individual benefits and action, but now a day’s general method is used to reinforce
protective plans to diminish the risk and focusing on improving health determinants.
Alertness in created regarding these policies to reduce the danger of suicide cases. Regulation
also designed for healthy cities by dropping the danger of depression or stress because it is
necessary to acquire health literacy in the society. That can be adapted by making healthy
choices and living in a healthy environment (de Souza, et. al, 2018). Thus the fifth national
mental health and suicide prevention plan was deployed to support healthy planning by
building preventive suicidal measures. It can be treated as a primary part to improve to
lifestyle of well-being by influencing people about the side effects of mental health.
Health issues are implemented using an active approach that looks on the social and
environmental conditions. It promotes the issues which help in reducing the risk of diseases.
Health is an important part and is associated with various factors like family behaviours,
obsession of bad habits, and indiscrimination in the society, socio economic aspect or
depression. Government of Australia has propelled several exceptional constitutional

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schemes for prevention of suicide cases to support the victory of healthy environment (Patel,
et. al, 2016). It discovers every individual in the society suffering from mental illness by
using integrated approach as take care of every individual that also affects the working capital
of the place. Mental illness can be caused at any stage of life, but once acquired seems
difficult to be resolved. For that awareness is created by educating about the symptoms of
depression and mental illness so that disease could be detected and appropriate actions could
be taken so that don’t penetrate throughout the lifespan. Mental disorder also arises due to
malnutrition as it impacts mental health among old aged people which leads to consequences.
In this the consequences of mental illness is discussed and it has been researched that this
disease is seen among which age group. So that essential measures could be undertaken like
creating awareness among individuals concerning health issues.