Sentences with phrase «mental health epidemic»

Research indicates that there is a current mental health epidemic affecting students and their school success.

In the face of a youth mental health epidemic, service involvement could be a powerful preventative strategy

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But it also encompasses a host of other big initiatives, including more than $ 5 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and money to help the FDA; $ 1 billion for tackling the opioid epidemic; and provisions that are meant to help pair Americans who suffer from serious mental illnesses with available psychiatric beds.

«This is an important issue to study because mental health problems and social isolation are at epidemic levels among young adults,» lead author Brian Primack, M.D., Ph.D., director of Pitt's Center for Research on media, technology and health said in a statement.

Between the endless natural disasters, political paralysis, loneliness epidemic, job stealing (or even world - ending) robots, and regular threats of nuclear annihilation, it's no wonder the nation's mental health professionals claim anxiety (particularly among young people) is on the rise.

His beliefs and politics: As a counselor, Clinton advocates for greater mental health awareness among Christians and addresses pornography as an epidemic hurting marital intimacy.

I think that medicalized birth practices resulting in inter-generational deprivation of our basic human rights has been a major contributor epidemics of diabetes and obesity and mental health problems.

Rather than assign blame for the ADHD epidemic, we must look to a new paradigm of mental health that is founded in contemporary developmental science.

Cuomo fired back at Trump over criticism of New York's mental health care, and said that the commander - in - chief does not want to deal with the gun problem at the heart of the U.S.'s shooting epidemic.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo fired back at President Trump over criticism of New York's mental health care, and said that the commander - in - chief does not want to deal with the gun problem at the heart of the U.S.'s shooting epidemic.

Molinaro also wants to enhance the county's focus on addressing the opioid epidemic with additional addiction and mental health initiatives.

Early last year, Poloncarz created the Opioid Epidemic Task Force, bringing together players from the criminal justice, medical, mental health, human services, community and family advocacy arenas.

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, many mental health experts confidently predicted an epidemic of PTSD, especially in the most severely affected locations: New York City and Washington, D.C..

«West Africa will see much more suffering and many more deaths during childbirth and from malaria, tuberculosis, HIV — AIDS, enteric and respiratory illnesses, diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and mental health during and after the Ebola epidemic,» they write.

«Sleep deprivation is epidemic among adolescents, with potentially serious impacts on mental and physical health, safety and learning.

Clearly, our current epidemics of mental health problems and developmental disorders like autism and ADD can be traced back to poor nutrition, environmental toxins, and stressful lifestyles, in many cases.

There's no doubt that there is an epidemic of mental illness in prisons and few inmates are getting access to the mental health care that they need.

The Office for National Statistics regularly measures well - being and Seldon believes it would be possible to make school - level comparisons, which could go some way to tackle the «epidemic» of mental health problems among young people.

One in 4 children experiences a mental health disorder annually, 73 and half of those who will have a mental health disorder at some point in their life will first be diagnosed at age 14 or younger.74 Furthermore, about half of all children will experience a traumatic event — such as the death of a parent, violence, or extreme poverty — before they reach adulthood.75 And as the opioid epidemic continues to grow, students are coming to school affected by a parent's addiction as well as the havoc and instability that it can wreak on family life.76 In addition, as students experience other issues — such as puberty; family matters, like divorce; and bullying — having supportive trained adults to talk to in school is critical for improving their well - being and attention to learning.

In addition, the Government has announced a major reform agenda for mental health services, a major response to the ice epidemic, and structural changes to the way healthcare is planned and commissioned regionally through the Primary Health Networks (health services, a major response to the ice epidemic, and structural changes to the way healthcare is planned and commissioned regionally through the Primary Health Networks (Health Networks (PHNs).

Citing his latest bedtime reading, Anatomy of an Epidemic, he said that there is evidence that drug - based treatments that work in the short term may actually contribute to the rise in mental ill - health in the long run.

The USA has epidemics of poor physical and mental health (e.g., UNICEF, 2007; USDHSS, 1999; WHO / WONCA, 2008).

I recognized that investing in the earliest relationships offered the best opportunity to prevent the growing epidemic of mental health problems in children and adults.