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Indeed, the causes of physical illness and death among psychiatric patients are much the same as those in other groups - cigarette smoking, obesity, diabetes - and are treatable. The problem is that people with serious mental illness tend to be low on the socioeconomic totem pole and often don't get the best available health care. Frequently, their own doctors pay little heed to their patients' physical health. "Medical doctors think, 'Well, they're crazy,' so they don't take their concerns seriously," says Wendy Brennan, executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) in New York City. "Their...
...United States are consumed by people with psychiatric histories. "I used to run state hospitals, and we'd use cigarettes as reinforcement - 'You did good; you get a cigarette,'" he says. "When people didn't do well, we took away their tobacco privileges. We were part of the problem." The agency is now working to make state mental hospitals smoke-free...
...that health officials call them an epidemic within an epidemic. For example, about 13% of schizophrenic adults in their 50s have received a diabetes diagnosis, compared with 8% of the general population of the same age. In October, the NASMHPD released another report, with recommendations for treating the particular problem of obesity, including giving those with severe mental illness better access to dietary consultations and promoting the prescription of low-weight-gain antipsychotics. The agency is currently working on creating a tool kit for federal health-care providers to better inform them on the issue...
...must choose between climate change, oil wars, or nuclear holocaust,” said Lovins, the co-founder of the sustainability-research organization Rocky Mountain Institute. “We are never given the choice of ‘none of the above,’ when all these problems go away if we use energy in a money-saving way.” Comparing present models of the U.S.’s oil and electricity consumption to his own theoretical ones, Lovins’ presentation, “Profitable Solutions to Climate, Oil, and Proliferation...
...panelists noted the economic benefits that come with increased efforts in the area of global health. “The rate of return on vaccinations is at least as high as benefits of education,” Bloom said. Venkayya also spoke about going beyond throwing money at the problem. “Buying vaccines and medicines will only get you so far. Other things require a more sustained commitment,” Venkayya said. All three panelists agreed that it would be disastrous to reduce spending on global health because of the current financial crisis. In fact, they said...