Academic health centers are essential in many communities, providing professions education and patient-focused services. These institutions often serve as anchor for community-engaged efforts to underserved populations. During the COVID-19 pandemic, central nature of academic centers, well-being were on full display. This special issue aims contribute expand our understanding inform empirically...

The figures for occupational therapy personnel employed in community mental health centers from 1977 to 1986 quoted in AOTA's Ad Hoc Com· mission's repon Occupational Ther· apy Manpower: A Plan for Progress (AOTA, 1985) and clarified in a Letter to the Editor by Silvergleit (1987) are thought· provoking in relation to our own articles on related topicS (Nee· man & Neeman, 1983, 1987). We learn ...

The Affordable Care Act, along with Medicaid expansions, offers the opportunity to redesign the nation's highly flawed mental health system. It promotes new programs and tools, such as health homes, interdisciplinary care teams, the broadening of the Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services option, co-location of physical health and behavioral services, and collaborative care. Provisions of t...

Since 1984, when the EEC Program 815/84 was introduced, the term “psychiatric reform” was made synonymous to the imperative change of the asylic psychiatry towards a decentralized and community based psychiatric care. This program presented various stages of non absorption of funds, stagnation and finally a developmental phase until the completion of the program in 1995. A total of 250 new serv...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effect of an intervention on healthcare professionals' perceptions of barriers influencing their provision of decision support for callers facing cancer-related decisions. DESIGN A pre- and post-test study guided by the Ottawa Model of Research Use. SETTING Australian statewide cancer call center that provides public access to information and supportive ca...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE This study aimed to investigate the knowledge of community general practitioners (GPs) and nurses about pre-hospital stroke recognition, treatment and management and secondary stroke prevention; to identify the sociodemographic and educational factors influencing knowledge. METHODS A self-designed test questionnaire was applied in a self-administered close-exam setting ...

the relationship between fatigue and mental health in chemical warfare victims with bronchiolitis obliterans     abbasi s [1] , mehdizadeh s [2] *, moqaddam m [3]     received: 8 mar, 2013 accepted: 10 may, 2013    abstract  background & aims : fatigue is one of the most debilitating symptoms in patients with respiratory disorders. in addition, among the chronic disease, lung disease have the h...

Background To explore possible associations between the level of engagement, the strategies workers use to encourage treatment compliance, the therapeutic relationship, perceived coercion and outcomes in a cohort of 'difficult-to-engage' clients receiving either Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) support or Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) support in Northern Ireland. This study also aimed ...