Promoting Whole Health For Those With Mental Illness
Isn’t it painfully ironic to address mental illnesses while allowing people die from unattended medical conditions? Unfortunately, this is the current state of health care for many patients with mental illnesses and addictions disorders. We must work harder to provide integrated healthcare where it is easiest for patients to access. Community mental health organizations around the U.S. have long been dedicated to developing programs and advocating for policies that improve access to effective physical healthcare for people with mental illness.
After reviewing policy recommendations regarding mental illness patient morbidity and mortality and surveying community mental health organization members on their current activities and barriers, government lobbyists for mental health groups have launched a series of policy initiatives to help close the death and disability gap for people with serious mental illness.
Community Mental Health Services Improvement Act -
People with behavioral health disorders — including depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia — need access to quality healthcare that is timely, affordable, appropriate, and coordinated with the behavioral health treatments and services they receive. Currently, many people served by the mental health and substance use treatment systems are not able to access care in primary care settings due to coverage issues, stigma, and the difficulties of fitting into the fast-paced-visit model of primary care.
In the past year, the mental health community as a whole achieved a small but significant legislative victory when the 111th Congress authorized one of the key provisions in the Community Mental Health Services Act — a new $7 million grant program, housed at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, giving people with serious mental illnesses the promise of a healthcare home.
Health Disparities Designation -
As a key first step, one of the recommendations of the morbidity and mortality report to create a federal designation for people with serious mental illness as a distinct at-risk health disparities population, followed by the development and adaptation of materials and methods for prevention and for inclusion of this population in morbidity and mortality surveillance demographics.
Community mental health organizations and their parent national lobbyists continue to work with federal agencies and with Congress to obtain this designation as it would help to prioritize persons with serious mental illness to receive physical healthcare from community health centers.
Medicaid Chronic Care Management Demonstration -
Congress has a history of creating targeted Medicaid demonstration programs to establish the effectiveness of particular interventions. In this spirit, many national mental health organizations are seeking a $250 million Medicaid demonstration targeted toward agencies that serve people with serious mental illness to help those agencies better coordinate care and to provide baseline physical healthcare services on site.
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Bill Gates: Use Vaccines To Lower Population Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, March 1, 2010 Microsoft founder Bill Gates told a recent TED conference, an organization which is sponsored by one of the largest toxic waste polluters on the planet, that vaccines need to be used to reduce world population figures in order to solve global warming and lower CO2 emissions. Stating that the global population was heading towards 9 billion, Gates said, If we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services (abortion), we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 per cent. Quite how an improvement in health care and vaccines that supposedly save lives would lead to a lowering in global population is an oxymoron, unless Gates is referring to vaccines that sterilize people, which is precisely the same method advocated in White House science advisor John P. Holdrens 1977 textbook Ecoscience, which calls for a dictatorial planetary regime to enforce draconian measures of population reduction via all manner of oppressive techniques, including sterilization. Im not sure what the nothing-to-see-here explanation is for Bill Gates theory that new vaccines can help lower the population of the world, points out the Cryptogon blog, But I thought about the incidents from the 1990s where the World Health Organization was providing a tetanus vaccine to poor girls and women (and just poor girls and women) that contained human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG). For <b>…</b>
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Considering a double-major in Health Services Management and CIS?I'm not sure which area of Computer Information Systems would best compliment my Health Services Management major. My ultimate goal is to work as a Hospital Administrator. My options are:
1.Database Management
2.Systems Analysis and Integration
3.Web Development and Administration
4.Information Systems Security
Which of these would help me out the most in attaining my goal?
so uhhh… this vaccine killed everyone right? i didnt think so
“increased abortion to decrease child mortality”
That makes no sense, since a child dies with every abortion.
Also, how can vaccines “reduce the population”? Wouldn’t one think that NOT vaccinating – allowing people to catch diseases and die – would decrease the population?
It's never a mistake to try. Whether you qualify depends on your county. Usually there are some public mental health programs. For some, you have to be on public assistance. It depends a lot on where you are. I think you are in CA because you reference a CA police code. Look for the number for mental health services in your county. If they say you don't qualify, ask for referrals to other low cost providers- they should have phone numbers.
Consider looking outside of public services, too. Often, clinics associated with universities will offer discounted/sliding scale services. Some non-profits also offer sliding scale fees. I worked for a CA non-profit in the high desert that offered services by intern therapists (Master's trained) for $1 a session.
I am already on medication for both BiPolar and anxiety, so I suppose that talk therapy about the causes of my episodes would be helpful, too.
I love the way she thinks. She is spot on and match my learnings.
Perhaps you can go to one of the community health clinics and set up free screenings and educational programs. Perhaps at one of the childrens centers, you could educate the young on nutritional programs, excercise, etc. (obesity is a problem) through the use of a "show" or have some volunteers start a softball league, peewee football etc. Show them the positive fun of excercise and better nutrition. Get them while they are young! This will abate long term health problems.
My son is a doctor too, so you go and make this a better, healthier world!! Congratulations on your choice of careers, and yes, you can make a difference!!!
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I think you did a really good job here. People just don’t get it. It really is Orwellian double speak. It doesn’t take long if you start looking at the history of these programs and their results to realize something is very very wrong. I came across my first paper on depopulation in the 80′s. Take how bad you think things really are and multiply it by 3 and you’re prolly pretty close to being on target. Please don’t send any of these “philanthropic efforts” my way.
Don't feel so bad about it. The fact that you recognize that you have a problem means that you're sane! It's okay to consult an expert to know what is happening to you. Below are the sources that I think can help you find a good institution. You can also browse the yellow pages or ask for the help of your friends to make your burden lighter. Good luck.
First of all it would help to know how old you are.
But next in you phone book-guessing you live in the states, look up Dept of Mental Health. Call the number given and ask for the Director of Mental Health Services for you area of the state, most states are divided into areas. Next explain you have no insurance and you are in need of mental health services, most all states have agencies that work on a sliding scale. Also some states actually have a hot line that will help you if you need immediate help and I don't mean hospitalization. If that fails to work you can read my profile and if you feel safe e-mail me and I'll see what I can do for the state you live in. God Bless Reggie
Begin with your local health department. They can refer you to reputable agencies that can help you.
Good Luck!
Let me guess…you’re a xtian and anti-birth control or woman’r reprodutive rights.
1. Go back to school…you are deficient in basic arithmatic skills…75%?
2. Your Xtian propaganda and “suble” attempts to inject “abotion” into the argument is like you, laughable.
Family planning = Birth control pills, condoms, IUDs, vasectomies and possibly abortion. Family planning is not a euphemism for abortion. In some countries many women dies in childbirth.
Only a criminal record will show up. The sentencing should not show up. If a a record (conviction) is found, It is public record and is available if searched for.
Industrialisation is the key to lower population growth. Why don’t people like Bill Gates, the royal families of Europe and the Rothschilds give 99,9% of their wealth to help poverty stricken nations industrialise? Because they are complete sadist nutjobs like Kim Jong-il, King Henry VIII, Adolf Hitler and King Louis XVI.
It’s people like them who care only about themselves.
Support population control. Spay and neuter millionaires and billionaires, and depopulate greedy multinational corporations.
MANY,HECK, ABOUT ALL OF THE CITIES AND COUNTIES IN MI HAVE FREE COUNSELING SERVICES AND PROGRAMS!!!!!! CHECK YOUR YELLOW PAGES AND OR CITY DIRECTORY!!!!!!!!!!!
Vaccines to third world countries have had HcG hormone added to them to permanently sterilize women. Not to mention other uncontrolled substances in them. Most third world countries avoided taking the flu viruses from the WHO because they suspected as much would happen again. Philanthropists like Gates and ‘elitisty’ here are the ones funding the Global 2000 depopulation plans to reduce world population down to less than 2 billion total. Of course, wars help that, too.