Editorial - Have your say on Mental Health Act reformsThe Mental Health Act white paper for England and Wales, informed by the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983, is out for consultation.It includes proposals to change existing legislation to support increased patient choice and end...
"The stats are similar in the U.S. and U.K., about one in six people every week experience diagnosable levels of mental illness," said Dr. Antonis Kousoulis, the director for England and Wales at the Mental Health Foundation. Health experts said COVID-19 created a global mental health ...
Mining and mental health Mining is one of the largest male-dominated industries in Australia, directly employing an estimated 2% of the total national workforce, with over 100 coal mines operating across the two primary coal producing states: New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland (QLD). Media an...
——– Today is#worldmentalhealthdayand here are some stats on mental health in the US. Remember…https://t.co/mn4gsjIcS8 — Ludacris (@Ludacris)October 10, 2017 Today on#WorldMentalHealthDay, keep the conversation going. The only way to cement change is to educate. Menta...
Despite the high prevalence of trauma related disorders, professional help-seeking in this group is very low. This study sought to evaluate a face-to-face mental health literacy (MHL) Course that teaches community-based workers how to provide initial help to Iraqi refugees with depression and ...
I was 14 years old when my family first discovered I had mental health problems. I don’t know the exact age I began to feeldifferentbut I didn’t have the confidence or the know-how to tell them, so they found out in pretty much the worst possible way. They received a phone call...
The campaign encourages supporters to keep up the conversation on mental health by talking and listening to others. This comes ahead of Mental Health Awareness Week, which this year has the theme of anxiety. In 2020, the Premier League signed up to the "Mentally Healthy Football Declaration", ...
Nursing is an emotionally demanding profession and deficiencies in nurses’ mental wellbeing, characterised by low vitality and common mental disorders, have been linked to low productivity, absenteeism and presenteeism. Part of a larger study of nurses’ health, the aim of this paper was to descri...
I’m currently hoping that we might reschedule for sometime in the autumn, perhaps around World Mental Health Day. Around this time it can be a particularly pertinent to talk about what’s going on in your bonce; many of us struggle with the shift of seasons and the colder, shorter, ...
The value of breastfeeding in supporting the normal growth and development of infants and young children is recognized worldwide [1]. There is also a growing awareness that it is possible for women to breastfeed their adopted children, and that health care professionals should support them if th...