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Why Is It Important For You To Take Care Of Your Body?

Mesa Family Physician

When you prioritize your physical and mental health, you’re investing in your future well-being and quality of life. The Connection Between Physical and Mental Health Why should you take care of your body and mental health together? Why Is It Important To Take Care Of Your Mental Health?

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How your mental health can affect your physical health

Vida Family Medicine

Most patients who go to see a primary care doctor are concerned about improving their physical health. They want to live a long life free of chronic health problems that may cause pain, limit their activities, or cause complications that could land them in the hospital.

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An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. On Why Integrated Care Should Be a Cornerstone of the HHS Agenda

Integrated Care News by CFHA

It offers care where people already are: their doctor’s office, their community mental health clinic, their OB/GYN’s exam room. It provides immediate, non-stigmatized behavioral health support at the point of medical care, often in the same visit.

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Gathering Family Perspectives on Integrated Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

I am sharing a few excerpts from a family interview I conducted a few years ago that illustrates how integrated behavioral health enhances the four primary care functions. Jamie Devine, DSW, is this practice’s integrated behavioral health clinician. I think it’s so convenient, especially to have the provider just come in.

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

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design and Analysis: A prospective, mixed design feasibility study in which participants are followed over six months by an interdisciplinary team including a health coach, lifestyle medicine physician, dietician, and kinesiologist. All participants increased their physical activity with 80% progressing towards their health goals.

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Mental Health

East Cary Family Physicians

We are often informed about the importance of physical health, via exercising, physical check ups, or eating healthy, but it is important that mental health does not get overlooked. To be an overall healthy person, one must pay attention both to physical and mental health.

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Position Statement on Measurement Based Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MBC is much more than simply administering behavioral health measures. Rather, it is an evidence-based, collaborative process that mirrors the well-established framework of using physical symptom monitoring (e.g., vital signs, bloodwork laboratory findings, and other physical test data) as a means of guiding care over time.