Mental Hygiene in Public Health

Beyond the asylum: professionalization and the mental hygiene movement in Canada, 1914-1928.

The mental hygiene movement in Canada emerged in the second decade of this century during a period that has been called the "heyday of public health."2 Understandably, the movement shared some of the features of the public health movement. One of these features was a tension between the priorities of physicians interested in establishing medicine as a successful profession, and the aims and met...

Expert Committee on Mental Health, World Health Organisation. Report on the Second Session

In stressing the opportunities for preventive mental health work which the public health services provide, it is noted that these are appreciated by only a comparatively few psychiatrists, although Psychiatric support is needed by the public health worker in integrating the principles of mental hygiene into his activities as well as in dealing with individual mental health problems. The Report ...

Mental Hygiene and the Health Department.

Drug Overdose Deaths: Let's Get Specific.

aUniversity of Kentucky, College of Public Health, Lexington, KY bNew York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY cNorth Carolina Division of Public Health, Raleigh, NC dKansas Department of Health and Environment, Topeka, KS eUtah Department of Health Violence and Injury Prevention Program, Salt Lake City, UT fMaryland Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, MD gM...

Mind, Body, and the Public Health

Emotional disorder is the public health problem of the day. Over half of our hospital beds are occupied by mental patients, and five out of every one hundred adults will spend some part of their lives in a mental hospital.2 There are more chronic alcoholics than acute cases of tuberculosis.3 Forward-looking and progressive leaders of the public health profession, with eyes sharply focused on th...

Wide Range of Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae Incidence and Trends in Emerging Infections Program Surveillance, 2012–2015

Nadezhda Duffy, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Cedric J. Brown, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Sandra N. Bulens, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wendy Bamberg, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Sarah J. Janelle, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Jesse Jacob, Emory University Chris Bower, Georgia Emerging Infections Program...