Side Meetings
SMB308
Advancing Mental Health Support to Achieve Health Equity
23
Jan
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14:00 - 17:30 HRS. (BKK)
- The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust
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Session 1: Overcoming Challenges of Integrating Psychosocial Care into Routine Cancer Care
A meta-analysis reported that 11.6% and 13.9% of long-term cancer survivors experienced significant depression and anxiety, respectively. According to the quality of cancer care standard from the International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS) and World Health Organization (WHO), psychosocial care is recognized as a universal human right that should be accessible to all affected individuals. However, implementing routine symptom distress assessment and management in clinical practice is challenging due to the complexity of distress management.
Session 2 - Cross-cultural insights on tackling community-based late-life depression
All over the world, mental health needs are high but responses are insufficient and inadequate. As announced by the World Health Organization in its “Comprehensive mental health action plan 2013–2030”, there is need to improve mental health by strengthening effective leadership and governance, providing comprehensive, integrated and responsive community-based care, and strengthening information systems, evidence and research. To this end, international comparative studies may advance our understanding of population mental health.
Session 1: Overcoming Challenges of Integrating Psychosocial Care into Routine Cancer Care
This panel discussion aims to facilitate an insightful exchange of experiences among speakers regarding the implementation of structured symptom distress assessment and management in routine cancer care within their respective countries.
Session 2 - Cross-cultural insights on tackling community-based late-life depression
The plenary would, from a socio/cultural perspective, present the cross-culture collaboration between two community-based late-life depression prevention trials (JC JoyAge from Hong Kong and PRODIGITIAL from Brazil). Through a pooled analysis (combined sample n>9,800), we aim to understand how these two cultures differ at individual symptom/behaviour level and in treatment response in the real-world, as well as gain new insights that challenged a fundamental assumption on depression 'cardinal symptoms'. Speakers from other countries/regions will be invited to share their view from the perspective of population mental health in promoting health equity.
