Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: There has been a steady increase in pediatric emergency department (ED) visits for mental health. These visits are costly and preventable, representing a failure to address the mental health needs of children. of clinicians received any support by VMAP between 2016-2023. Results: 20.2%

Mental Health 130

Mental Health Internal Medicine DO Family Medicine 130

The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Content Warning: This episode contains themes of violence, trauma-induced mental health concerns, and brief mentions of suicide. Understand how engaged community-based work, centered on trust and accountability, has supported the health of communities served by Oakland, CA’s Asian Health Service.

Community 52

Community Patient-Centered Relationship Healthcare 52

BMJ

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The health risks may even be higher when these prescription medications are laced with other substances to increase their bulk weight or alter their psychoactive effects. Besides the risks to an individual, there are also population-level harms from normalizing certain harmful behaviors (e.g., Fam Med Community Health.

Medical 40

Medical Holistic Care Healthcare Healthcare Professional 40

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

The number of people who have used MAID in Canada since it was legalized in 2016 has increased year on year from about 1,000 people in the first year to over 13,000 people in 2022. And I think that you can actually see this if you view it as a public health issue for a second. So it started off for individuals with a terminal illness.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Then I got online as a patient advocate and started connecting with the brain tumor community on social media and Facebook and Twitter, and actually started working in the healthcare space, in palliative care advocacy, for a palliative care advocacy organization in California, which is where I’m based, about eight years ago.

IT 96

IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 96

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

What are the structural factors and individual factors that contribute to homelessness? One of the worst ways is you have a community of people who’ve paid into Social Security their whole life, paid into to support Medicare their whole life, and don’t live long enough to see the fruits of that.

Mental Health 124

Mental Health IT Community Individual 124

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

2015, 2016. And then 2016 after CMMI finished the evaluation, it looked good, nothing happened. So if you think about dementia, it’s on the intersection of aging stigma and mental health stigma. Whereas with comprehensive dementia care, what you really need is a lot of the support that is delivered in the community.

Patient-Centered 126

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 126