Promoting Mental Hygiene Through the County Public Health Department

Mental Hygiene and the Health Department.

Mental Hygiene in Public Health

surgeon s blade provided an additional 313 specimielns. From this vast quantity of material the author has reconstructed the chronology of the pathogenic process in a dynamic manner. The behavior of the parenchymal lesion, of the bronchial lesion, and of tuberculous bronchiectasis are each discussed separately. The chapter on bacteriological observations should prove valual)le to anyone who has...

Mental Hygiene in Public Health

opens a wide field for the activities of Medical Officers of Health. It arises as a result of a series of lectures given in an American University by a Public Health Officer, who has had the vision to see that mental health is as important as physical health. The new Health Service Act has laid much stress on hospital and clinical care and treatment, but the preventive side of medicine has been...

[Family health through the lens of mental hygiene].

The article is meant to stimulate debate about the social and historical determinants that shape the construction of public mental health policy within the context of the Brazilian family. Current policies have emphasized the family as a strategic target of initiatives aimed at social transformation, with the intervention of different actors, including psychologists. An examination of some idea...

Promoting mental wellbeing through activity in a mental health hospital

Occupational therapists hold, at the core of their philosophy, the belief that activity can be used to work towards an improved quality of life, despite any disability (Yerxa 1983). According to Coia and Joice (1989), the ability to use activity as a treatment medium is unique to occupational therapists and vital in recovery in mental health. The recreational therapy hall offered the only widel...