the development of a public health monitor for mental health

The reform of mental health care started more than a decade ago.  Several innovations characterize this thorough transformation process (such as the creation of mobile teams for both crisogenic and more chronic patients, the thickening or intensification of care, the concretization of the recovery vision, the  establishment of psychological care in primary care, ...).  In order to monitor the actual effects of the reforms in a dynamic way and to steer on a macro-, meso- and micro-level on outcomes such as reducing the treatment gap, guaranteeing care continuity and the adequacy of care, a monitoring system or dashboard on a population level is missing. Reforms in the mental health sector require a feedback system of a limited number of quantifiable variables at the population level (such as prevalence, use of care and quality of life) that not only visualizes the further process of the reforms, but also evaluates them. This makes care planning and the use of resources at the level of the population and the networks quantifiable and evaluable, and attunable to the needs of the population and the patient. The 'public health monitor' project is developing a monitoring system for the Flemish general population.