Mental Health and Telehealth
Organizations and Professional Events
PR thru PRZ

Objectives:

• Undertake fundamental inquiry into the human and moral significance of developments in biomedical and behavioral science and technology
• Explore specific ethical and policy questions related to these developments
• Provide a forum for a national discussion of bioethical issues
• Facilitate a greater understanding of bioethical issues
• Explore possibilities for useful international collaboration on bioethical issues

PCA America has 38 state chapters and 2 provisional chapters.

The official publication of the Primary Health Care Specialist Group is Informatics in Primary Care.

PCP publishes electronic texts and facilitates scholarly work via its World-Wide Web server, Principia Cybernetica Web, associated FTP server, electronic mailing lists, and through conferences and traditional publications.

• National PLAR standards should be developed to ensure that PLAR processes are fair and consistent, wherever they are used;
• A strategy should be set up to get PLAR working in schools, training programs and in the workplace and in career planning.

Objectives:

• Develop a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency Network focused on prison health care innovation, evaluation and knowledge dissemination
• Develop a network of collaborative prisons actively hosting research and development in prison health care
• Develop and deliver research projects in each of the core work streams, encouraging prison staff to become active partners in the research process
• Develop training opportunities for clinical staff in research methods and signpost them to existing training and development opportunities
• Work toward developing the frequency and quality of service user involvement in prison health care provision and research
• Develop a "pathway to research", outlining the processes required to successfully undertake research in prisons, including information about funding, research ethics and governance requirements and practical information about conducting research in such a unique environment
• Host an annual, international conference and other workshops and training events, highlighting innovative research findings and best clinical practice examples in prison health care from the UK and worldwide

The organization began in 1986 as a task force of the American Psychiatric Association, then became an independent, not-for-profit agency in 1991. PPOH has 42 psychiatrists working at 25 sites.