Webhealth
Webhealth has been specifically developed to provide access for people to
connect with Health and Social Services. This web-based approach builds on
the strengths of people and families to determine their support needs. Within the Webhealth website is Linkage. Linkage is a
partnership between an NGO, Pathways; primary health care, Pinnacle; and a
secondary provider/hospital, Health Waikato. It offers early intervention
services with a “one stop shop” in central Hamilton and New Plymouth.
Thursday, October 23, 2003
Articles from the Journal of the American Medical Association, Psychiatric Services and the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. [Viewing Medscape resources requires registration, which is free].
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Newhouse News Service story on advance directives - "People with psychiatric problems who struggle daily to maintain their footing are relying on an increasingly popular document to protect them if they falter: a page or two of written instructions that spell out their care. ... No national estimate exists on how many people have chosen the tool, and doubts persist among skeptics who see risks in giving patients a forceful voice regarding their treatment in psychiatric emergencies. ... Some of the documents are written under state laws on living wills that allow people to formalize choices for end-of-life medical care. Some states -- Ohio recently became the 19th -- have enacted laws that specifically outline procedures for establishing an advance directive for mental health care. The first large-scale study of PADs is under way with a $2 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health..." See also the September 16 Duke University Medical Center press release, NIMH Funds $1.98 Million Study to Examine Effectiveness of Advance Directives for Patients with Mental Illnesses, which notes that "Additional research funding for the study has been provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Greenwall Foundation."
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Reuters Health story - "U.S. and Japanese researchers said on Thursday they had found a genetic mutation that causes obsessive-compulsive disorder and other mental illnesses and said some patients had a second mutation that made their conditions worse. The rare finding could make it easier to discover good treatments for the disorder, one of the top 10 leading causes of disability worldwide."
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Copyright 2003 © Bill Davis.
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