Workers’ mental health has priority
Published Wednesday 25 of January, 2012
Published from Florence Fee in the Financial Times – January 25, 2012
“Sir, Michael Skapinker (“Employers need help with the mentally ill”, January 19) needs to understand that while most employers would probably not take on someone with major medical illness since functionality might be impaired, they do prioritize good mental health for their workers, because, of the top 10 disorders in terms of cost for both claims and productivity, depression and anxiety rank number 1 and number 5.
As the government’s... Read all
Previous news entries
Docs Love I.P.C.! (integrated primary care)
Published Thursday 15 of September, 2011
Why Mental Health and Primary Care
Intervention is the Future…and What It Will Look Like.
Here is a presentation titled “Introduction to Effective Behavioral Health in Primary Care” by Alexander Blount, EdD, Miguel Olmedo, DNP from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. This session was coordinated by the National Association o...
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Interview with Dr. Donald Berwick, Director of CMS
Published Thursday 25 of August, 2011
MARGARET WARNER: Finally tonight, a profile of one of President Obama’s leading players in implementing health care reform. Betty Ann Bowser, our health correspondent, has our look at the man and the controversy surrounding him.
BETTY ANN BOWSER: Dr. ... Read all
The Lastest and Greatest from Neuroscience: We're Still at Baby Steps Understanding What's Going on in the Brain to Cause Mental Disorders
Published Friday 12 of August, 2011
Mental Illness Defined as Disruption in Neural by Thomas Insel
It has become an NIMH mantra to describe mental disorders as brain disorders. What does this mean? Is it accurate to group schizophrenia, depression, and ADHD together with Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and Huntington’s disease? Is a neurologic approach to me... Read all
Executive Director's Blog
Published Thursday 14 of July, 2011
The question of whether to forcibly medicate Jared Loughner with anti-psychotic medications, with the potential of prosecutors then asserting his competency to stand trial for murder, goes to the heart of a serious cultural-legal-medical issues our society needs to address surrounding mental illness.
First of all, Mr. Loughner has a grave, disabling illness, schizophrenia. It is a br... Read all
Loughner Ruling: One Small Positive Step On Our Way Towards Understanding May 25, 2011
Published Thursday 26 of May, 2011
The ruling by an Arizona federal court judge today that Jared Lee Loughner is not competent to stand trial for murder is one small step in our society’s understanding of the true nature of serious mental illness, but the larger picture of the Loughner case shows how far we still have to go.
US District Judge Larry Burns ruled that defendant Loughner was unable to comprehend the felony... Read all
US Govt issues new fact sheet on nature of child and adolescent brain development
Published Friday 29 of April, 2011
US Govt issues new fact sheet on nature of child and
adolescent brain development. Where we are now, and where we are
headed in understanding the nature of how brain development takes
place in early years of life.
NHMH Executive Director Florence Fee to Speak at March 2011 NIMH Conference on Global Mental Health
Published Tuesday 15 of March, 2011
The executive director of NHMH, Florence C. Fee, J.D., will be one of the featured speakers at the invitation-only conference on global mental health organized by the U.S. Government’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), March 24-25, 2011 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. The conference will draw together experts... Read all
Doctors Slow to Switch to EHRs - electronic health records Though data clearly shows benefit; issue is cost
Published Tuesday 15 of March, 2011
Primary care medical practices in the U.S. are modernizing, including advancing from paper records to electronic health records (EHR). The transition will be slow due to the costs of implementing computerized systems and maintenance, however gradually more and more practices are turning to digital records as the data consistently shows the benefits in terms of impr... Read all
Physical, Behavioral Health
Published Tuesday 11 of January, 2011
Letter to Editor, SF Chronicle January 11, 2011
Jared Lee Loughner appears to have been paranoid, delusional and probably suffering from serious mental illness.
His community college had forced him to leave and told him to get a mental health assessment.
We need to reshape the way behavioral health is provided in the U.S. Siloed medical health and behavioral health (the... Read all
The other 90%, of patients with mental disorders, go to primary care doctors to be seen. Of that group, 70% currently do not received evidence-based mental health treatment by non-mental health practitioners.
(Ibid)