GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

See also guides for how to confront and discuss anti-Asian hate in these articles in the NEJM and JGIM. We could wear masks against Covid, but we couldn’t vaccinate against racism. And that has an impact, as we’ve shown in the papers, on your social health, your mental health and physical health.

Mental Health 116

Mental Health Community Screening IT 116

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

When they think about homelessness, their mind goes to what I would call the individual risk factors, things like having a substance use disability or mental health disability. It is completely disconnected, like a scatter plot, between things like rates of substance use and mental health. Those are structural factors.

Mental Health 123

Mental Health IT Community Individual 123

BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

Increased health anxiety has been a feature of the pandemic, with fears around leaving the home, social distancing, hand hygiene, and shortages of goods and medications due to panic buying commonplace. In addition, increased prescribing of a multitude of medications highlights groups particularly affected by the pandemic.

Primary Care 40

Primary Care Supply Chain General Practitioner Vaccination 40

GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

We’ve lived through lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, mask mandates, hospital surges where ICU’s overflowed, a million COVID deaths, prolonged school closures, development and roll out of novel vaccines, an explosion of social isolation and loneliness, and the invention of the “zoom meeting.” . Their vaccines aren’t as effective.

Vaccination 100

Vaccination IT Hospital Management 100