originally, public health actions turned to the living conditions that prevented the development of countries in the process of increasing urbanization, especially protecting their workers and tackling economic losses. the actions were primarily directed to infectious diseases. today, the process of urbanization in most countries of the world is consolidated, and new health problems that affect...

BACKGROUND People with serious mental illness (SMI) exhibit a high prevalence of cardiovascular diseases. Mental health services have a responsibility to address poor physical health in their consumers. One way of doing this is to conduct metabolic monitoring (MM) of risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. This study compares two models of MM among consumers with SMI and describes referral pa...

Given the high prevalence and serious consequences of both CVD and mental disorders, associations between the two types of diseases would have a major impact on public health. If there is a causal link between CVD and mental disorders, the screening and early treatment of one of the two types of diseases is likely to have a preventive effect on the other pathology. The mechanisms underlying thi...

A cross-sectional population-based study was conducted to identify the prevalence of common mental disorders and verify the association with chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and the self-reported number of chronic diseases. The Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20) was applied in a multi-stage random sample of 1,276 adults aged 40 and older. Socio-demographic, behavioral, and health-rel...

BACKGROUND Musculoskeletal diseases are characterized by a high degree of comorbidity with common mental disorders and are a major cause of health-related exclusion from working life. Using a prospective design we aimed to examine the relative importance of physical and mental health-related quality of life as predictors of disability pension due to musculoskeletal diseases. METHODS A subsamp...

Fragile sites /Chromosomal aberrations play a role in the etiology of mental retardation and other associated complications. Since Down syndrome is the most common genetic cause of mental retardation, the present study was done to evaluate the effect of fragile sites on sys-temic diseases and growth and developmental pattern among them. Human lymphocyte cell culture with folate free medium show...

In the Indian scenario, research in mental health is notably deficient, but available clinical and epidemiological data suggest a significant co-morbidity between mental diseases and cardiovascular diseases. Mental health problems do not have the precision of other biological sciences due to the complex phenotypes. In India the effects of culture and the transition in symptomatology of psychiat...