The Open Archives Initiative (http://www.openarchives.org/) develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. One key project is the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH, http: //www.openarchives.org/pmh/) which provides “a low-barrier mechanism for repository interoperability” for archives (institutiona...

general population surveys often report that only a small proportion of individuals with common mental disorders seek mental health treatment, suggesting a high level of unmet need for mental health care in the community. in recent years, however, the number of adults in industrialized countries who are treated with antidepressant medications has dramatically increased. this paper reviews the p...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE In perimesencephalic nonaneurysmal hemorrhage (PMH), subarachnoid blood accumulates around the midbrain. Clinical and radiological characteristics suggest a venous origin of PMH. We compared the venous drainage of the midbrain between patients with PMH and aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) by means of computed tomography angiography (CTA). METHODS CTAs of 55 PMH...

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...

Mental health is essential for individual and public health. To improve mental health, promotion, prevention, and the treatment of disease are required. These three kinds of interventions are interrelated but independent from one another. Although separate efforts for mental health promotion and prevention are needed as well as the public need of mental health promotion and well-being, psychiat...

The available research literature suggests that in disasters, individuals presenting acutely with psychologically-related complaints tend to outnumber those presenting with physical symptoms directly stemming from the injury-causing agent or event. This acute "mental health surge" can rapidly overwhelm existing community mental health resources, especially in the context of terrorism. Training ...

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...

ThisNews story (BMJ 2014;349:g4857, doi:10.1136/bmj.g4857) states that figures from Public Health England (PHE) show that Merton CCG in southwest London has the highest proportion of its population with a common mental health disorder (31%). However, PHE have confirmed that the 31% figure was incorrect, and have updated their data to show that common mental health disorder prevalence for Merton...

BACKGROUND Higher levels of urinary albumin excretion predict future hypertension and chronic kidney disease. Post-menopausal hormone use may influence the renin-angiotensin system and renal endothelial function, impacting albumin excretion. The association between post-menopausal hormone use and albuminuria is not well defined. METHODS We explored the cross-sectional association between dura...