The Health Care Blog
JANUARY 20, 2022
Effective July 2022, a new three-digit telephone number (988) will become the number to call in the case of mental health emergencies. Currently, 911 serves as the default number for people to call, placing the acutely mentally ill on a direct track toward police involvement. This last point deserves more attention.
Frontiers
OCTOBER 13, 2021
The physical and mental burden of prolonged exposure to bushfire smoke is vastly underestimated by official statistics that are based upon admissions into the health system, finds a large survey of residents affected by the widespread bushfires close to Canberra, Australia’s capital city, in the summer of late 2019 and early 2020.
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Institute of Public Health
MAY 30, 2023
IPH Public Health Development Officers, Dr Joanna Purdy and Dr Ciara Reynolds, were among the many delegates to present at the April conference. The report was developed for the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, as part of their review of the Ten Year Tobacco Control Strategy for Northern Ireland (2012-2022).
BU School of Public Health Blog
OCTOBER 18, 2024
October 18, 2024 0 Jillian McKoy Twitter Facebook Breastfeeding difficulties, hypertension, depression, and sleep deprivation are just a handful of the health challenges that mothers may experience in the weeks and months following childbirth.
Frontiers
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
Electroconvulsive therapy may be one of the most effective treatments for depression and severe mental conditions. But extensive evidence appears to show that ECT may be one of the most valuable and effective options for severe and treatment-resistant mental conditions such as schizophrenia and depression. Unwarranted public fear.
Public Health Informatics Institute Newsletters
MARCH 6, 2024
Lina Saintus highlights successful ways public health organizations have used data to measure and improve child and adolescent mental health (CAMH). The post Stories chronicle success in improving child and adolescent mental health appeared first on PHII.
Public Healthy
AUGUST 21, 2020
I started thinking about this blog last year, when it was still basically socially acceptable to cough on strangers. It was to be about my worries that we were losing the battle for ‘hearts and minds’ on what public health is, and should be, and how we are occasionally our own worst enemies. Simpler times. Abolish PHE!
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