HOUSE CALLS AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INTEGRATION: ADDRESSING MENTAL HEALTH LITERACY AND DEPRESSION CARE

Health literacy and self-care in patients

Self-care is a process in which a patient uses his knowledge and skills to perform recommended behaviors. Therefore, patients should not only be able to obtain sufficient information about their illness and how to take care of them, they must also be able to use their knowledge in different situations and situations. In fact, patients for self-care and disease management, need to receive accura...

The Role and Functions of Embedded Behavioral Health Providers in VA Primary Care-Mental Health Integration

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...

Empathy and Mental Health Literacy

Background: There is growing literature on mental health literacy (MHL), but few studies have conducted research on anything more than demographic predictors of MHL. We believe that those who are more empathic would be more interested in and more knowledgeable about mental illnesses. Objective: This study was concerned to establish whether people who were more empathic would have higher MHL. Me...

Health literacy: addressing the health and education divide.

Health literacy as a discrete form of literacy is becoming increasingly important for social, economic and health development. The positive and multiplier effects of education and general literacy on population health, particularly women's health, are well known and researched. However, a closer analysis of the current HIV/AIDS epidemics, especially in Africa, indicates a complex interface betw...