scholarly journals Policing and Mental Health: The Current Criminal Justice Approach to a Public Health Issue

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacklyn Spatzer
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Health Issue ◽  
Public Health Issue

Revisiting goa's mental health

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 573-573
Author(s):  
A.E. Ribeiro ◽  
M. Santos
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Physical Symptoms ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Health Issue ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Major Public Health Issue

Despite Goa's privileged economic and environmental position, research has demonstrated that mental health is in fact a major public health issue in this Indian state.Besides learning difficulties, child abuse, and high suicide rates, depression and anxiety seem to affect more than one third of the patients in primary care attenders. Medically unexplained physical symptoms are common clinical features, frequently misdiagnosed by the primary care physicians. Alcohol consumption has always been an integral part of Goan lifestyle, with alcohol dependence being a major public health issue. Drug abuse, in particular heroin and more recently LSD and ecstasy, are of concern in the coastal areas, and foreign influence might not be the only explanation for this fact.Goa has one of the most extensive health systems in India. Private psychiatry is also relatively well represented, and fortunately there are some NGOs working in this field, providing care in areas where government services have been inadequate.Despite those facts, the majority of persons with mental health disorders have never come in contact with mental health care providers. Persons prefer to consult non-mental health professionals, and frequently continue to seek help from Religious and Spiritual Leaders, Informal Counsellors, priests and Gurus with healing powers. Many of such practices are unregulated, expensive and potentially dangerous.Priority mental health issues in Goa include sensitizing health workers to mental illnesses, and improving access to care in existing health services.

Violence Is a Public Health Issue

Pained ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 131-132
Author(s):  
Michael D. Stein ◽  
Sandro Galea
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Issue ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Public Health Perspective ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Health Burden

This chapter looks at how violence is a public health issue. Even as rates of violence from several causes have declined, the persistent prevalence of violence in people’s daily lives, both domestically and globally, should give people pause. In theory, violence is eminently preventable. Decreasing violence should therefore be a top priority in the broader pursuit of preventing disease and poor health. Yet violence continues to injure and kill worldwide. At the heart of this failure to prevent violence is the belief that violence is not a health issue. Overwhelmingly, people think of violence as a criminal justice problem, or a sociopolitical concern. This has resulted in the heavy-handed approach to incarceration, which has exacerbated racial divides in the United States and done little to prevent violence. Yet violence is a public health problem, with consequences both individual and collective. Some individuals who experience violence die; those who do not will go on to bear a physical or mental health burden that can last a lifetime. As such, solutions to violence must be rooted in a public health perspective. This means understanding how the context that shapes people’s health each day can raise the likelihood of violence.

scholarly journals Editorial: Mental Health as a Public Health Issue

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore H. Tulchinsky ◽  
Antoine Flahault ◽  
Itzhak Levav ◽  
Ezra Susser ◽  
Viviane Kovess-Masfety ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Issue ◽  
Public Health Issue

scholarly journals Prognostic evaluation of suicidality and development of risk factors in victims of physical and emotional child abuse and emotional/psychological neglect

BJPsych Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (S1) ◽  
pp. S273-S273
Author(s):  
Latif Miah
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
Health Issue ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
The Impact

AimsTo evaluate the effects of childhood maltreatment, specifically physical and emotional abuse and emotional/psychological neglect on the development of suicidal ideation, depressive symptoms and self-harm. It is hypothesised that there will be a strong causal link between the aforementioned types of maltreatment with suicidality, depression and self-harm.BackgroundChild abuse is a major public health issue with profound developmental and mental health consequences towards victims and their contributions to society as a whole. The impact of sexual abuse is well-established, however non-sexual child maltreatment and its sequelae are not as well understood or studied.MethodA literature search was carried out using the Pubmed, Cochrane, Scopus and Google Scholar databases. Articles were appraised according to set criteria and manually screened for relevance to the review.ResultThe results of this review demonstrate that there are statistically significant, potentially causal links between emotional and physical abuse, and emotional/psychological neglect with suicidal ideation, depressive symptoms and self-harm. More research is still required to elucidate the role of polyvictimisation in mental health outcomes and to further confirm these links between abuse and development.ConclusionChild maltreatment remains a large public health issue with major impact on the economy of the world. It has profound, potentially lifelong consequences on victims and is something that needs to lose its stigma so that it can be identified earlier and potential damage prevented as far as possible. The future may lie in working to remove the stigma surrounding it, standardise how it is studied and thus learn to recognise the signs earlier – ideally leading to implementation of policy to get victims to safety, preventing unncecessary harm.

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