Mental & Behavioral Health

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Safe Opioid Supply Leads to Better Outcomes

Fellow Rowena Lindsay

Sportsbooks: Gambling the Odds, Or Your Health?

Fellow Mallika Chimpiri

Sleep as Medicine: Getting Back to What Restores Us

Guest Author Lily Fotovat

Editor Monica L. Wang

Understanding Costs of Mobile Units to Address the Overdose Crisis

Guest Authors Joshua Barocas, Yjuliana Tin

Kidfluencing: Profits Over Protection

Fellow Bernadette Carter-Salmond

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07.06.2017 Graph showing inverse relationship between suicides and psychiatric hospital beds

Suicide Needs Unmet

A recent JAMA article by Gibbons, et al. demonstrates that the national suicide rate and the number of psychiatric beds have an inverse relationship.

Fellow Gilbert Benavidez

06.23.2017 Charts showing increase in suicide rates in Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan

Economics of Suicide

Risk of suicide is a complex, multifaceted issue that is notoriously hard to gauge patient by patient, but the state of the economy can predict an uptick.

Fellow Gilbert Benavidez

06.16.2017 a group of mailboxes in a field

Telemental Health

Those with mental health challenges living in rural areas have long been at a significant disadvantage when it comes to receiving care due to lack of professional caregivers. Advances in technology such as live video teleconferencing have the potential to change this.

Fellow Madeline Bishop

05.26.2017 Soldiers silhouetted against a hazy sun and sky

Misconduct or Mental Health?

Stigma surrounding mental health in the military remains a major hurdle and can lead to less than honorable discharges, which then increases risk of death by suicide. A bill known as the Honor Our Commitment Act of 2017 would expand mental health care for Veterans.

Fellow Madeline Bishop

04.07.2017 Graph showing disparities in spending on mental health

Investing in Mental Health

International organizations are beginning to prioritize mental health as a serious public health crisis, but current efforts are falling short.

Fellow Madeline Bishop

03.16.2017 Badges of Massachusetts police departments that have joined P.A.A.R.I.

A New Approach to Addiction

Facing a dramatic upswing in overdoses and deaths related to heroin and prescription opioid painkillers, the Arlington Police Department hired a public health clinician to help create treatment and care plans for at-risk individuals.

Fellow Jonathan Gang

03.06.2017 Diagram of microaggressive speech

Dignity in Language for Population Health

Microaggressions are subtle, insidious, and often nearly constant in the experience of individuals belonging to marginalized identity groups.

Fellow Maggie Thomas

03.02.2017 a graph of a disease

Can the News Fuel Stigma Around Mental Illness?

News coverage of mental health in the last twenty years may have led the conversation in a misguided and discriminatory direction, emphasizing violence rather than treatment.

Fellow Madeline Bishop

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