ICHOM is pleased to share that the Milken Institute’s newly released report, Advancing Mental Health Worldwide: Five Core Elements for Effective Strategies, references ICHOM’s mental health outcomes measurement work within its section on mental health data and system transformation.
The report explores how policymakers, healthcare organizations, community-based partners, industry, and individuals with lived experience can work together to improve mental health outcomes globally. Within Core Element 5: Streamline Mental Health Data and Measurement for System Transformation, the report highlights Fountain House’s “Measures that Matter” framework as an example of a mental health measurement approach that builds on ICHOM’s Sets for depression and anxiety (2017) and psychotic disorders (2022).
The report emphasizes the importance of centralized, accurate, and interoperable mental health data to improve outcomes, strengthen accountability, and support system-wide transformation. It also highlights the need to measure not only clinical outcomes, but also quality of life and psychosocial functioning — areas that are central to ICHOM’s person-centered approach to outcomes measurement.
ICHOM’s Mental Health Sets are currently used by hospitals and healthcare organizations in countries including the United States, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, and Australia.
The full report, Advancing Mental Health Worldwide: Five Core Elements for Effective Strategies, is available via the Milken Institute.
