About
Mental health, social and prevention of addiction Group of Experts was formed up in the medical Science University of Tabriz and the health center of east Azerbaijan province following the aim of organizing, planning, and purposeful implementation of mental health and addiction prevention plans ( in three prevention levels of public, selective , and case study in the population of the province). This workgroup’ s objective is to make policies, plan, take action, support and pursue the plans regarding the priorities and regional, provincial and national requirements, the components and capacities of primary health care( PHC) system and its supplementary plans such as ‘family doctor’. In addition, in pursuing its goals this group takes the factors such as disease burden, mental and social problems of addiction, and effective factor causing addiction in the province and in the population covered by the workgroup.
This group was excluded from the prevention and caring for non-communicable disease workgroup in 2012 and is operating, independently, under the supervision of the health department of the university, the director of health center in the province, and the head of oh health and treatment centers in the related towns.
The responsibilities of this group is to give the health centers and health and sanitation houses direction and increase their capacity in terms of mental and social health improvement, addiction prevention, expanding technical and executive plans improving mental health, efficient and effective management of social harms, reinforcing the technical, specialized and management skills of the related human source staff based on intra-organizational and inter-sectorial interaction.
The top priorities of the work group
- Diagnosis , caring for , and pushing the mental and neural disorder in the covered population
- Prevention, screening and providing health service for the treatment of drug and alcohol abuse
- Suicide prevention
- Social and mental support in disasters and unexpected events
- Education mental and social health knowledge enhancement
- Prevention from domestic violence
- extraction, analysis and promotion indicators of mental health, social, and Preventing according to the instructions on the panel
- Setting campaigns on drug and alcohol abuse and tobacco
- Setting campaigns on anxiety, depression, anger control , and stress management