The preparation and writing of this report was co‑ordinated by Emily Hewlett. Chapter 1 was written by Emily Hewlett, Chapters 2 and 3 by José Bijlholt and Emily Hewlett, Chapters 3 and 4 by Emily Hewlett and Yuka Nishina, and Chapters 5 and 6 by Emily Hewlett, with input from José Bijlholt. The OECD Mental Health System Performance Framework was developed by mental health experts and stakeholders from across OECD countries, with co‑ordination by Emily Hewlett and Kate Cornford, and with assistance from Lukasz Lech. At the OECD, this report has benefitted significantly from input from Kate Cornford, who helped set the initial conceptual direction of this project, and from advice and input from Frederico Guanais, Rie Fujisawa, Ian Brownwood, Elina Suzuki, Niek Klazinga, David Morgan, Michael Mueller and Duncan MacDonald. The anaylsis of the report, and the range of data reported, has also benefitted significantly from exchanges, insights, and comments from Christopher Prinz and Shunta Takino. Francesca Colombo, Mark Pearson and Stefano Scarpetta provided valuable comments and suggestions at various stages of the project. Hannah Whybrow, Lukasz Lech, and Lucy Hulett provided essential support in the publication process.
This report was produced with the support of a generous contribution from the Public Health Agency of Canada, who also provided valuable feedback on the substantive shape of the project throughout. The contents of the report have been shaped by exchanges with mental health experts from OECD countries and beyond, who have contributed data, information, ideas, and enormously helpful feedback throughout the course of this project. The contributors are too numerous to name, but in particular the authors would like to thank: all those experts and stakeholders who participated in the 2018 and 2020 OECD Workshops on Mental Health Performance, and who have reviewed multiple drafts of the analysis and data presented in this report; and experts from Canada, the Czech Republic, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden and the United Kingdom whose feedback on the drafts of the Mental Health Performance Benchmarking Data and Policy Questionnaires was invaluable. The authors would also like to extend particular gratitude to the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL), and in particular Stephen Watkins and Zoe Morris at the NHS Benchmarking Network, for many years of extremely fruitful collaboration on developing internationally comparable mental health indicators.
The authors would also like to extend thanks to all of the delegates of the OECD Health Committee for their responses to the Mental Health Performance Benchmarking Data and Policy Questionnaires, and for providing valuable comments on progress and summary documents presented to the OECD Health Committee in December 2018, June 2020, and December 2020, and on the substantive chapters of the report which were circulated in March 2021.