TY - JOUR
T1 - Todo está en el mapa
T2 - Atlas Integrales de Salud Mental para la planificación de servicios. Informe SESPAS 2020
AU - Salinas-Pérez, José A.
AU - Gutiérrez-Colosia, Mencía R.
AU - Romero López-Alberca, Cristina
AU - Poole, Miriam
AU - Rodero-Cosano, María Luisa
AU - García-Alonso, Carlos R.
AU - Salvador-Carulla, Luis
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 SESPAS
PY - 2020/1
Y1 - 2020/1
N2 - Objective: This article reviews the usability of the Integrated Atlases of Mental Health as a decision support tool for service planning following a health ecosystem research approach. Method: This study describes the types of atlases and the procedure for their development. Atlases carried out in Spain are presented and their impact in mental health service planning is assessed. Atlases comprise information on the local characteristics of the health care system, geographical availability of resources collected with the DESDE-LTC instrument and their use. Atlases use geographic information systems and other visualisation tools. Atlases follow a bottom-up collaborative approach involving decision-makers from planning agencies for their development and external validation. Results: Since 2005, Integrated Atlases of Mental Health have been developed for nine regions in Spain comprising over 65% of the Spanish inhabitants. The impact on service planning has been unequal for the different regions. Catalonia, Biscay and Gipuzkoa, and Andalusia reach the highest impact. In these areas, health advisors have been actively involved in their co-design and implementation in service planning. Conclusions: Atlases allow detecting care gaps and duplications in care provision; monitoring changes of the system over time, and carrying out national and international comparisons, efficiency modelling and benchmarking. The knowledge provided by atlases could be incorporated to decision support systems in order to support an efficient mental health service planning based on evidence-informed policy.
AB - Objective: This article reviews the usability of the Integrated Atlases of Mental Health as a decision support tool for service planning following a health ecosystem research approach. Method: This study describes the types of atlases and the procedure for their development. Atlases carried out in Spain are presented and their impact in mental health service planning is assessed. Atlases comprise information on the local characteristics of the health care system, geographical availability of resources collected with the DESDE-LTC instrument and their use. Atlases use geographic information systems and other visualisation tools. Atlases follow a bottom-up collaborative approach involving decision-makers from planning agencies for their development and external validation. Results: Since 2005, Integrated Atlases of Mental Health have been developed for nine regions in Spain comprising over 65% of the Spanish inhabitants. The impact on service planning has been unequal for the different regions. Catalonia, Biscay and Gipuzkoa, and Andalusia reach the highest impact. In these areas, health advisors have been actively involved in their co-design and implementation in service planning. Conclusions: Atlases allow detecting care gaps and duplications in care provision; monitoring changes of the system over time, and carrying out national and international comparisons, efficiency modelling and benchmarking. The knowledge provided by atlases could be incorporated to decision support systems in order to support an efficient mental health service planning based on evidence-informed policy.
KW - Atlas
KW - Health planning support
KW - Maps
KW - Mental health services
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85090865560&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.gaceta.2020.06.015
DO - 10.1016/j.gaceta.2020.06.015
M3 - Review article
C2 - 32933792
AN - SCOPUS:85090865560
SN - 0213-9111
VL - 34
SP - 11
EP - 19
JO - Gaceta Sanitaria
JF - Gaceta Sanitaria
ER -
