Jo‐An Occhipinti
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5551978 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jo‐An Occhipinti |
| PRENOMES | Jo‐An |
| SOBRENOME | Occhipinti |
| ASSINATURA | OCCHIPINTI J A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2380-1092 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Following the youth patient journey in the mental health help-seeking process in Bogotá, Colombia
BACKGROUND: Understanding help-seeking behaviors of young people with mental health concerns is crucial for developing responsive mental health services and policies. This study aimed to explore the help-seeking journeys of Colombian youth, the formal and informal services they reached out to when faced with psychological distress and the order in which these services were consulted. Additionally, it examined the differences between pathways of a…
Participatory systems modelling to improve mental health systems in Bogotá, Colombia
BACKGROUND: Participatory Systems Modelling (PSM) offers an opportunity to deliver robust, contextually relevant, and suitable models for informing strategic responses to complex public health challenges. For mental health care systems, PSM benefits from multi-sectoral participants' social and emotional capital for building consensus on priorities and policy objectives that can influence decision-making. METHODS: In Bogotá, Colombia, we evaluated…
Recovering from the market citizenship experiment
Recent changes in industrial relations policies represent a break with the Australian experiment with market citizenship at work. At the Federal level, they involve the adaptive reuse of legacies that have, in recent decades, been regarded as secondary to the system (e.g. awards and industrial tribunals) to renovate the foundations of labour law. Innovations in wages policy are helping repair the foundational economy (i.e. sectors providing the i…
Can participatory processes lead to changes in the configuration of local mental health networks? A social network analysis
Systems modeling offers a valuable tool to support strategic decision-making for complex problems because it considers the causal inter-relationships that drive population health outcomes. This tool can be used to simulate policies and initiatives to determine which combinations are likely to deliver the greatest impacts and returns on investment. Systems modeling benefits from participatory approaches where a multidisciplinary stakeholder group …
Building systemic resilience, productivity and well-being
Strengthening mental health research outcomes through genuine partnerships with young people with lived or living experience
BACKGROUND: Despite increasing support for stakeholder inclusion in research, there is limited evaluative research to guide safe (i.e., youth-friendly) and meaningful (i.e., non-tokenistic) partnerships with young people with lived experience of mental ill-health in research. This paper describes a pilot evaluation and iterative design of a Youth Lived Experience Working Group (LEWG) protocol that was established by the Youth Mental Health and Te…
Measuring, Modeling, and Forecasting the Mental Wealth of Nations
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the deep links and fragility of economic, health and social systems. Discussions of reconstruction include renewed interest in moving beyond GDP and recognizing “human capital”, “brain capital”, “mental capital”, and “wellbeing” as assets fundamental to economic reimagining, productivity, and prosperity. This paper describes how the conceptualization of Mental Wealth provides an important framing for measuring an…
A Dynamic Approach to Economic Priority Setting to Invest in Youth Mental Health and Guide Local Implementation
Equipping SD models to undertake economic analysis is intended to support local priority setting and help optimise implementation regarding the best value mix of investments, timing and scale. The objectives are to improve allocative efficiency, increase mental health and economic productivity
Sound Decision Making in Uncertain Times
The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the significant value of systems modelling in supporting proactive and effective public health decision making despite the complexities and uncertainties that characterise an evolving crisis. The same approach is possible in the field of mental health. However, a commonly levelled (but misguided) criticism prevents systems modelling from being more routinely adopted, namely, that the presence of uncertainty arou…
Optimizing Strategies for Improving Mental Health in Victoria, Australia during the Covid-19 Era
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the mental health of populations and highlighted the limitations of mental health care systems. As the trajectory of the pandemic and the economic recovery are still uncertain, decision tools are needed to help evaluate the best interventions to improve mental health outcomes. We developed a system dynamics model that captures causal relationships among population, demographics, post-secondary education,…
Partnering with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
The social and emotional wellbeing of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be supported through an Indigenous-led and community empowering approach. Applying systems thinking via participatory approaches is aligned with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research paradigms and can be an effective method to deliver a decision support tool for mental health systems planning for Indigenous communities. Evaluations are necess…
Participatory Systems Modelling for Youth Mental Health
The youth mental health sector is persistently challenged by issues such as service fragmentation and inefficient resource allocation. Systems modelling and simulation, particularly utilizing participatory approaches, is offering promise in supporting evidence-informed decision making with limited resources by testing alternative strategies in safe virtual environments before implementing them in the real world. However, improved evaluation effor…
Which Social, Economic, and Health Sector Strategies Will Deliver the Greatest Impacts for Youth Mental Health and Suicide Prevention? Protocol for an Advanced, Systems Modelling Approach
Background: Current global challenges are generating extensive social disruption and uncertainty that have the potential to undermine the mental health, wellbeing, and futures of young people. The scale and complexity of challenges call for engagement with systems science-based decision analytic tools that can capture the dynamics and interrelationships between physical, social, economic, and health systems, and support effective national and reg…
A Pilot Case-Control Study of the Social Media Activity Following Cluster and Non-Cluster Suicides in Australia
Social media may play a role in the "contagion" mechanism thought to underpin suicide clusters. Our pilot case-control study presented a novel methodological approach to examining whether Facebook activity following cluster and non-cluster suicides differed. We used a scan statistic to identify suicide cluster cases occurring in spatiotemporal clusters and matched each case to 10 non-cluster control suicides. We identified the Facebook accounts o…
Bringing new tools, a regional focus, resource-sensitivity, local engagement and necessary discipline to mental health policy and planning
Systems modelling and simulation delivers an interactive decision analytic tool to test mental health reform and service planning scenarios in a safe environment before implementing them in the real world. The approach drives better decision-making and can inform the scale up of effective and contextually relevant strategies to reduce the burden of mental disorder and enhance the mental wealth of nations
The Impact of Reducing Psychiatric Beds on Suicide Rates
There has been ongoing debate regarding the impact of reductions in psychiatric beds on suicide rates, and the potential effect of reallocation of acute hospital funding to community-based mental health programs and services. Computer simulation offers significant value in advancing such debate by providing a robust platform for exploring strategic resource allocation scenarios before they are implemented in the real world. We report an applicati…
Policy options for endgame planning in tobacco control
These results suggest that any prudent approach to endgame planning should seek to build on rather than replace existing tobacco control measures that have proved effective to date. Additional interventions that can promote cessation are expected to be more successful in reducing smoking prevalence than interventions focussing exclusively on preventing initiation
Unstress”
This research concerns an attempt to design and evaluate a 10-week, lay- led, low-cost stress-management program for dissemination at the community level. It is based on community needs assessment, empowerment, community control and other community psychology principles, and is combined with a cognitive-behavioral approach to stress management derived from health psychology. An evaluated trial reported here covers a 5-year period involving 61 gro…
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Unstress”
This research concerns an attempt to design and evaluate a 10-week, lay- led, low-cost stress-management program for dissemination at the community level. It is based on community needs assessment, empowerment, community control and other community psychology principles, and is combined with a cognitive-behavioral approach to stress management derived from health psychology. An evaluated trial reported here covers a 5-year period involving 61 gro…
The Impact of Reducing Psychiatric Beds on Suicide Rates
There has been ongoing debate regarding the impact of reductions in psychiatric beds on suicide rates, and the potential effect of reallocation of acute hospital funding to community-based mental health programs and services. Computer simulation offers significant value in advancing such debate by providing a robust platform for exploring strategic resource allocation scenarios before they are implemented in the real world. We report an applicati…
Policy options for endgame planning in tobacco control
These results suggest that any prudent approach to endgame planning should seek to build on rather than replace existing tobacco control measures that have proved effective to date. Additional interventions that can promote cessation are expected to be more successful in reducing smoking prevalence than interventions focussing exclusively on preventing initiation
Bringing new tools, a regional focus, resource-sensitivity, local engagement and necessary discipline to mental health policy and planning
Systems modelling and simulation delivers an interactive decision analytic tool to test mental health reform and service planning scenarios in a safe environment before implementing them in the real world. The approach drives better decision-making and can inform the scale up of effective and contextually relevant strategies to reduce the burden of mental disorder and enhance the mental wealth of nations
Which Social, Economic, and Health Sector Strategies Will Deliver the Greatest Impacts for Youth Mental Health and Suicide Prevention? Protocol for an Advanced, Systems Modelling Approach
Background: Current global challenges are generating extensive social disruption and uncertainty that have the potential to undermine the mental health, wellbeing, and futures of young people. The scale and complexity of challenges call for engagement with systems science-based decision analytic tools that can capture the dynamics and interrelationships between physical, social, economic, and health systems, and support effective national and reg…
A Pilot Case-Control Study of the Social Media Activity Following Cluster and Non-Cluster Suicides in Australia
Social media may play a role in the "contagion" mechanism thought to underpin suicide clusters. Our pilot case-control study presented a novel methodological approach to examining whether Facebook activity following cluster and non-cluster suicides differed. We used a scan statistic to identify suicide cluster cases occurring in spatiotemporal clusters and matched each case to 10 non-cluster control suicides. We identified the Facebook accounts o…
Measuring, Modeling, and Forecasting the Mental Wealth of Nations
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the deep links and fragility of economic, health and social systems. Discussions of reconstruction include renewed interest in moving beyond GDP and recognizing “human capital”, “brain capital”, “mental capital”, and “wellbeing” as assets fundamental to economic reimagining, productivity, and prosperity. This paper describes how the conceptualization of Mental Wealth provides an important framing for measuring an…
A Dynamic Approach to Economic Priority Setting to Invest in Youth Mental Health and Guide Local Implementation
Equipping SD models to undertake economic analysis is intended to support local priority setting and help optimise implementation regarding the best value mix of investments, timing and scale. The objectives are to improve allocative efficiency, increase mental health and economic productivity
Sound Decision Making in Uncertain Times
The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the significant value of systems modelling in supporting proactive and effective public health decision making despite the complexities and uncertainties that characterise an evolving crisis. The same approach is possible in the field of mental health. However, a commonly levelled (but misguided) criticism prevents systems modelling from being more routinely adopted, namely, that the presence of uncertainty arou…
Optimizing Strategies for Improving Mental Health in Victoria, Australia during the Covid-19 Era
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the mental health of populations and highlighted the limitations of mental health care systems. As the trajectory of the pandemic and the economic recovery are still uncertain, decision tools are needed to help evaluate the best interventions to improve mental health outcomes. We developed a system dynamics model that captures causal relationships among population, demographics, post-secondary education,…
Partnering with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
The social and emotional wellbeing of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be supported through an Indigenous-led and community empowering approach. Applying systems thinking via participatory approaches is aligned with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research paradigms and can be an effective method to deliver a decision support tool for mental health systems planning for Indigenous communities. Evaluations are necess…
Participatory Systems Modelling for Youth Mental Health
The youth mental health sector is persistently challenged by issues such as service fragmentation and inefficient resource allocation. Systems modelling and simulation, particularly utilizing participatory approaches, is offering promise in supporting evidence-informed decision making with limited resources by testing alternative strategies in safe virtual environments before implementing them in the real world. However, improved evaluation effor…
Can participatory processes lead to changes in the configuration of local mental health networks? A social network analysis
Systems modeling offers a valuable tool to support strategic decision-making for complex problems because it considers the causal inter-relationships that drive population health outcomes. This tool can be used to simulate policies and initiatives to determine which combinations are likely to deliver the greatest impacts and returns on investment. Systems modeling benefits from participatory approaches where a multidisciplinary stakeholder group …
Building systemic resilience, productivity and well-being
Strengthening mental health research outcomes through genuine partnerships with young people with lived or living experience
BACKGROUND: Despite increasing support for stakeholder inclusion in research, there is limited evaluative research to guide safe (i.e., youth-friendly) and meaningful (i.e., non-tokenistic) partnerships with young people with lived experience of mental ill-health in research. This paper describes a pilot evaluation and iterative design of a Youth Lived Experience Working Group (LEWG) protocol that was established by the Youth Mental Health and Te…
Recovering from the market citizenship experiment
Recent changes in industrial relations policies represent a break with the Australian experiment with market citizenship at work. At the Federal level, they involve the adaptive reuse of legacies that have, in recent decades, been regarded as secondary to the system (e.g. awards and industrial tribunals) to renovate the foundations of labour law. Innovations in wages policy are helping repair the foundational economy (i.e. sectors providing the i…
Following the youth patient journey in the mental health help-seeking process in Bogotá, Colombia
BACKGROUND: Understanding help-seeking behaviors of young people with mental health concerns is crucial for developing responsive mental health services and policies. This study aimed to explore the help-seeking journeys of Colombian youth, the formal and informal services they reached out to when faced with psychological distress and the order in which these services were consulted. Additionally, it examined the differences between pathways of a…
Participatory systems modelling to improve mental health systems in Bogotá, Colombia
BACKGROUND: Participatory Systems Modelling (PSM) offers an opportunity to deliver robust, contextually relevant, and suitable models for informing strategic responses to complex public health challenges. For mental health care systems, PSM benefits from multi-sectoral participants' social and emotional capital for building consensus on priorities and policy objectives that can influence decision-making. METHODS: In Bogotá, Colombia, we evaluated…
Mental health (14 obras) · Psychiatry (11 obras) · Psychology (11 obras) · Medicine (9 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras) · Health Policy Implementation Science (7 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Business (5 obras)