Fighting for Mental Health: A Personal View

A Multidimensional View of Personal Health Systems for Underserved Populations

The advent of electronic personal health records (PHR) provides a major opportunity to encourage positive health management practices, such as chronic disease management. Yet, to date there has been little attention toward the use of PHRs where advanced health information services are perhaps most needed, namely, in underserved communities. Drawing upon research conducted with safety net provid...

Personal Health Systems for Mental Health: The European Projects

Since the European funded project VREPAR--Virtual Reality in Neuro-Psycho-Physiology (1995)--different European research activities have been using virtual reality and advanced information and communication technologies to improve the quality of care in the treatment of many different mental health disorders including anxiety disorders, eating disorders and obesity. Now the European Commission ...

Peruvian Mental Health Reform: A Framework for Scaling-up Mental Health Services

Background Mental, neurological, and substance (MNS) use disorders are a leading cause of disability worldwide; specifically in Peru, MNS affect 1 in 5 persons. However, the great majority of people suffering from these disorders do not access care, thereby making necessary the improvement of existing conditions including a major rearranging of current health system structures beyond care deliv...

Personal Sensing : Understanding Mental Health Using Ubiquitous Sensors and Machine Learning RUNNING TITLE : Personal Sensing for Mental Health

Personal problems associated with mental health and mental illness.

The trend toward the management of an increasing number of psychiatric patients in the community has led to concern over the evaluation of this policy, particularly with regard to the adjustment of such patients within 'the community. In the case of patients admitted to a mental hospital, successful treatment must be measured not only by their early discharge from hospital but also by their sub...