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Seizing the MTM Opportunity:
What Psychiatric Pharmacists Need to Know
This presentation will focus on how the health care system is changing and how psychiatric pharmacists need to adapt to these changes to be successful. The objectives for the presentation will be to; a) understand the changing environment, b) adopt terminology that has currency in the new system, c) understand the new rules and regulations, d) be able to recognize success under the new rules, and e) decide which direction for the future is best. The specific changes that impact psychiatric pharmacists will be presented and the consequences of these changes discussed. Read more about this session.
Treatment With Duloxetine in Adults and the Incidence of Cardiovascular Events
Background: Cardiovascular events are inconclusively associated with duloxetine use in clinical trials and spontaneous reports. This analysis of cardiovascular events in relation to duloxetine use within a large health insurance database provides further data on the association.
Methods: This cohort study was conducted within a population with commercial health insurance.
[This Week in Medicine] January 21–27, 2012
Public health professionals in the USA have called for a comprehensive investigation into the health effects of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) used in shale gas production. Participants at a conference on Jan 9, in Arlington, VA, expressed concern that not enough is known about the health effects of the technology, particularly with regard to possible water and air pollution.
[Editorial] Global health in 2012: development to sustainability
In 2012 there will be a major strategic shift in global health, away from development and towards sustainability. Since 2000, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), driven by a macroeconomic diagnosis of global poverty, have focused on investment in a small number of diseases as the most effective approach to decrease poverty. Institutions such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Roll Back Malaria, and GAVI have been created to respond to that diagnosis.
[Editorial] Public health in England: from nudge to nag
Last year, the UK Government decided that gently “nudging” people to change their unhealthy behaviours was the key to public health—a strategy that many public health experts and a report by the House of Lords Science and Technology Sub-Committee criticised as ineffective. Now the government is backing something that could easily be called the nag approach.
[Comment] Knowledge as a key resource for health challenges
The world faces many challenges due to limited natural resources and the environmental and political consequences of using and managing scarce resources. The human consequences of natural disasters, conflict, and climate change look set to worsen. One solution is a resource that is genuinely unlimited and renewable, if well managed: knowledge. In science and technology, knowledge is an indispensable ingredient for progress. Within health care, it is key to the challenges of minimising potential harms and costs, while improving health and wellbeing.
[Comment] Self-harm in adolescence and future mental health
Results of several school-based community studies have shown that self-harm (intentional self-injury or self-poisoning) is very common in adolescents, being reported by around 10% of 15 and 16 year olds, In The Lancet Paul Moran and colleagues report a study in which they found that about 8% of adolescents in a sample of nearly 2000 Australian pupils, recruited from schools in the state of Victoria, said they had self-harmed.
[Comment] Empowerment and partnership in mental health
I was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1991, and as such I have experienced mental health care and the challenges that come with it, from abuse—both physical and emotional—in psychiatric institutions, to inadequate mental health-care services and the detrimental effects of stigma and discrimination. I have spoken to many people with mental illnesses, which has allowed me to gain insight into the flaws and shortcomings of mental health-care services, and the needs of people using these services in South Africa.
[Correspondence] Child mental health care in Brazil: barriers and achievements
Scaling up of mental health care is a global priority in low-income and middle-income countries, given the tremendous gap between needs and treatment. In Brazil, increased funding for mental health care and improved access have been reported (Oct 29, p 1592). Although these changes are noteworthy, little attention has been paid to the assessment of these initiatives.