Physician-Friendly States for Mental Health: A Comparison of Medical Licensing Boards

Do medical boards undermine physician mental health by breaching physician confidentiality and privacy? We analyze the initial medical licensing process in each state to determine if qualified applicants who report mental illness experience discrimination. We then identify the most favorable states for physician mental health.

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Medication challenges for patients with severe mental illness: experience and views of patients, caregivers and mental health care workers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

International Journal of Mental Health Systems ◽

10.1186/s13033-017-0126-6 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Masunga K. Iseselo ◽

Joel Seme Ambikile

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Health Care ◽

Mental Illness ◽

Mental Health Care ◽

Severe Mental Illness ◽

Health Care Workers ◽

Dar Es Salaam ◽

Illness Experience ◽

Care Workers ◽

Mental Health Care Workers

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A National Analysis of Medical Licensure Applications

Journal of Medical Regulation ◽

10.30770/2572-1852-94.4.11 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 94 (4) ◽

pp. 11-16 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sarah J. Polfliet

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Mental Illness ◽

Substance Use ◽

Americans With Disabilities Act ◽

Case Law ◽

Professional Organizations ◽

Medical Board ◽

Medical Licensing ◽

Application Data ◽

National Analysis

ABSTRACT The 1990 enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and subsequent case law have established that medical board screening of physician licensure applicants for histories of mental illness or substance use may constitute discrimination. This study examines how physician licensure questionnaires have evolved since the enactment of the ADA. Specifically, we requested medical licensure applications in 2006 from all U.S. affiliated medical licensing boards (n=54) and analyzed their mental health and substance use inquiries comparatively with application data from 1993, 1996 and 1998. Response rates were 96 percent (n=52) for initial registration applications and 93 percent (n=50) for renewal applications. Our results indicate that applicants in 2006, compared with applicants in the 1990s, were questioned more about past, rather than current, histories of mental illness and substance use. These findings revealed medical board practices that seem to run counter to existing court interpretations of the ADA, as well as licensure guidelines established by several professional organizations.

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Values, Meanings, Hermeneutics and Mental Health

International Perspectives in Values-Based Mental Health Practice ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-47852-0_40 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 341-349

Author(s):

Michael TH Wong

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Mental Illness ◽

Clinical Outcome ◽

Neuropsychiatric Symptoms ◽

Well Being ◽

Illness Experience ◽

Illness Narrative ◽

Complex Interplay ◽

Health And Well Being ◽

Promote Mental Health

AbstractA patient with neuropsychiatric symptoms was presented. The relevance of hermeneutics to the explanation and understanding of her illness experience and expression was highlighted. Her illness narrative was reviewed as a multi-layered discourse, and the clinical outcome through this hermeneutic analysis and intervention was reported. The complex interplay between values culture and meaning in the experience and expression of mental illness was summarized, demonstrating how hermeneutics facilitates values-based practice (VBP) to promote mental health and well-being.

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A Tribute to the Late William J. Curran

The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics ◽

10.1017/s1073110500004058 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 24 (3) ◽

pp. 274-275

Author(s):

O. Lawrence ◽

J.D. Gostin

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Health Care ◽

Mental Illness ◽

United Nations ◽

Mental Health Care ◽

Harvard University ◽

Legal Medicine ◽

General Assembly ◽

International Institute ◽

University Professor

In the summer of 1979, a group of experts on law, medicine, and ethics assembled in Siracusa, Sicily, under the auspices of the International Commission of Jurists and the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Science, to draft guidelines on the rights of persons with mental illness. Sitting across the table from me was a quiet, proud man of distinctive intelligence, William J. Curran, Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Legal Medicine at Harvard University. Professor Curran was one of the principal drafters of those guidelines. Many years later in 1991, after several subsequent re-drafts by United Nations (U.N.) Rapporteur Erica-Irene Daes, the text was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly as the Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and for the Improvement of Mental Health Care. This was the kind of remarkable achievement in the field of law and medicine that Professor Curran repeated throughout his distinguished career.

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