Clinical Lessons from Virtual House Calls in Mental Health

House calls.

House calls provide a unique perspective on patients' environment and health problems. The demand for house calls is expected to increase considerably in future decades as the U.S. population ages. Although study results have been inconsistent, house calls involving multidisciplinary teams may reduce hospital readmissions and long-term care facility stays. Common indications for house calls are...

Service transformation: Lessons from mental health

Integrating mental health into general health care: lessons from HIV.

Mental disorders are highly prevalent across all health settings. Where they are co-morbid with other chronic physical disorders, a complex bidirectional relationship exists between them. While mental disorders may result in an increase in adverse healthrelated outcomes, they are amenable to cost-effective treatments. In resource-limited settings, many barriers to the detection and treatment of...

Mobile ICT solution for house calls health care support

Home health care covers a wide range of activities for example, house calls, emergency medical assistance and medical home care. Although in Slovenia the number of house calls compared with visits in a clinic is constantly declining, we find that IT can best help doctors performing fieldwork, dealing with serious chronic illnesses, or helping the elderly, disabled or dying patients because they...

Mental health innovations in Africa: lessons from Ethiopia and Zimbabwe.

During the last 5 years, mental health intervention research in lowand middle-income countries (LMIC) has been flourishing. This research has been spurred by substantial investments by funders such as the UK Department for International Development, Grand Challenges Canada, the National Institute of Mental Health, the European Commission and the Wellcome Trust. Many of these studies have been a...