Mental Illness Can Worsen Chronic Diseases, CDC Warns
Conclusions: A population of complex patients with chronic mental illness are not effectively contained within a 'good enough' community-based mental health system. Active debate is required regarding the community's willingness to tolerate the risks and challenges that arise from the current approach....
Integrating mental health into chronic care in South Africa: the development of a district mental healthcare plan. In South Africa, the escalating prevalence of chronic illness and its high comorbidity with mental disorders bring to the fore the need for integrating men... Inge,Petersen,Lara,.....
The presence of other stressors in the family, familial impact of the illness, poor physical health of the mother, and the absence of a confidant for the women are also associated with the mother's psychiatric symptoms in a multivariate analysis that includes traditional predictors of women's ...
could provide a foundation for linking these disorders to this predisposition phenomenon [1]. We propose that circadian rhythmicity disruption (CRD) is one underlying biological p-factor shared by most mental health disorders, including neurodevelopmental, and aging-related mental disorders. Box1and2. ...
Close contacts of those with COVID-19 (CC) may experience distress and long-lasting mental health effects. However, the mental health status and quality of life (QOL) in CC have not been adequately examined. This study examined the mental health status and QOL in CC during the post-COVID...
chronic impairment. This chapter will focus on chronic mental illness associated with schizophrenia. We will review the history of the community mental health care system in the United States, review the most common medical co-morbidities in this population, and discuss the assessment and treatment ...
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Although these conditions are associated with higher rates of chronic medical conditions (CMCs) such as diabetes, asthma, and heart disease and infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and Hepatitis C, health research with MSM has focused on HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). ...
Public Health and Chronic Mental Illness.The author reflects on the medical care given to the chronically mentally ill people in the U.S. It has been stressed that the implementation of the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963 has changed the asylum ...