Cross-national diffusion of mental health policy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Following the tenets of world polity and innovation diffusion theories, I focus on the coercive and mimetic forces that influence the diffusion of mental health policy across nations. International organizations' mandates influence government behavior. Dependency on external resources, namely foreign aid, also affects governments' formulation of national policy. And finally, mounting adoption in a region alters the risk, benefits, and information associated with a given policy.

Methods

I use post-war, discrete time data spanning 1950 to 2011 and describing 193 nations' mental health systems to test these diffusion mechanisms.

Results

I find that the adoption of mental health policy is highly clustered temporally and spatially. RESULTS provide support that m

SUBMITTER: Shen GC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4204746 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature