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The Impact of Integrated Care on Healthcare Utilization and Costs: Evidence from the Kansas Health Homes Medicaid Program [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Individuals with complex conditions—those with multiple physical, mental, or behavioral health conditions--require numerous health and social services that are not effectively co-delivered by the current healthcare system.

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Behavioral Health Provider Perspectives on the Integration of Behavioral Health into Primary Care [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Themes were: (1) IBH is an evolving discipline that is complex, ambiguous, and requiring of on-going learning, which some Behavioral Health Consultants use as an asset to explain their role and purpose, (2) Physicians’ socialization has lead to the separation of physical and mental care, (3) While leadership buy-in is critical, IBH requires mindset (..)

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How Mental Health & SUD Bias Impact ED Physical Care

Physician's Weekly

Mental health and SUD bias impact the quality of ED care that patients with these conditions receive for physical health concerns, according to research. The post How Mental Health & SUD Bias Impact ED Physical Care first appeared on Physician's Weekly.

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Rural Ontario Complete Lifestyle Medicine Intervention Program (CLIP-ON) [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Chronic illness is at a record high in society. physical, social, emotional, spiritual and mental health information collected with well-being and lifestyle medicine tools, and anthropometric and cardiometabolic variables. All participants increased their physical activity with 80% progressing towards their health goals.

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Exercise found to decrease suicide attempts in those with mental and physical illness

Medical Xpress

A new study from the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Medicine found patients with mental or physical illness were able to successfully adhere to exercise regimes despite previous thinking, resulting in decreased suicide attempts.

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AATD Treatment Improvement Demands Disease-Specific PROMs

Physician's Weekly

The genetic disorder Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) can result in a range of illnesses, of which chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ( COPD ) is one of the most common. PROMs specific to AATD are needed to better address AATD symptoms and treatment burdens, and to guide the development of new treatments.

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Health Trends Across Communities: a healthcare system-public health collaboration to advance health equity across Minnesota [Population health and epidemiology]

Annals of Family Medicine

Outcome Measures: Prevalence estimates for 20 health conditions that address mental illness, chronic physical health conditions, substance use disorder, maternal and child health, and firearm injury. Summary information is generated at each site and then centrally combined and analyzed. Results: HTAC generated results for 4.6

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