Effects of Exposure to News of the U.S. War in Iraq on Iraqi Refugees' Health and Mental Health

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim A. Kira ◽  
Linda Lewandowski ◽  
Thom Templin ◽  
Hammad Adnan ◽  
Jamal Mohanesh
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Iraqi Refugees ◽  
War In Iraq ◽  
The U.S

Health and Mental Health Effects of Political Forgiveness--Reconciliation in Iraqi Refugees

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim A. Kira ◽  
Thom Templin ◽  
Linda Lewandowski ◽  
Hammad Adnan ◽  
Mohanesh Jamal
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
Iraqi Refugees ◽  
Political Forgiveness ◽  
Mental Health Effects

Welfare State Replacements: Deinstitutionalization, Privatization and the Outsourcing to Immigrant Women Enterprise

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Nazareno
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Direct Care ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Severely Mentally Ill ◽  
The U.S

The U.S. government has a long tradition of providing direct care services to many of its most vulnerable citizens through market-based solutions and subsidized private entities. The privatized welfare state has led to the continued displacement of some of our most disenfranchised groups in need of long-term care. Situated after the U.S. deinstitutionalization era, this is the first study to examine how immigrant Filipino women emerged as owners of de facto mental health care facilities that cater to the displaced, impoverished, severely mentally ill population. These immigrant women–owned businesses serve as welfare state replacements, overseeing the health and illness of these individuals by providing housing, custodial care, and medical services after the massive closure of state mental hospitals that occurred between 1955 and 1980. This study explains the onset of these businesses and the challenges that one immigrant group faces as owners, the meanings of care associated with their de facto mental health care enterprises, and the conditions under which they have operated for more than 40 years.

scholarly journals AGING AND MENTAL HEALTH: THE U.S. PERSPECTIVE

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (suppl_1) ◽  
pp. 641-641
Author(s):  
S. Cummings ◽  
S. Trecartin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
The U.S

scholarly journals Holistic Health: Does It Really Include Mental Health?

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 2092-2099 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly K. McClanahan ◽  
Marlene B. Huff ◽  
Hatim A. Omar
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Holistic Health ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Mental And Physical Health ◽  
The U.S

Holistic health, incorporating mind and body as equally important and unified components of health, is a concept utilized in some health care arenas in the United States (U.S.) over the past 30 years. However, in the U.S., mental health is not seen as conceptually integral to physical health and, thus, holistic health cannot be realized until the historical concept of mind-body dualism, continuing stigma regarding mental illness, lack of mental health parity in insurance, and inaccurate public perceptions regarding mental illness are adequately addressed and resolved. Until then, mental and physical health will continue to be viewed as disparate entities rather than parts of a unified whole. We conclude that the U.S. currently does not generally incorporate the tenets of holistic health in its view of the mental and physical health of its citizens, and provide some suggestions for changing that viewpoint.

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