BACKGROUND There is a higher mortality rate due to cancer in people with mental illness and previous work suggests suboptimal medical care in this population. It remains unclear if this extends to breast cancer population screening. AIMS To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to establish if women with a mental health condition are less likely to receive mammography screening compar...

IMPORTANCE Despite the potential importance of understanding excess mortality among people with mental disorders, no comprehensive meta-analyses have been conducted quantifying mortality across mental disorders. OBJECTIVE To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of mortality among people with mental disorders and examine differences in mortality risks by type of death, diagnosis, and ...

abstract previous research have shown that physical and mental illness and mortality are influenced by class status, material life standards, genetics and infection, but today social context attracted attention. in this paper social capital as a composition of social trust, support and relations seen as a mental health determinant. the aim of this paper is examining the relationship between soc...

OBJECTIVES This study examined mortality and medical comorbidity among patients with serious mental illness in Ohio. METHODS Data for 20,018 patients admitted to an Ohio public mental health hospital between 1998 and 2002 were matched against state death records, and 608 deaths were identified. Leading causes of death and medical comorbidities, years of potential life lost (YPLL), and standar...

BACKGROUND People with mental illness suffer excess mortality due to physical illnesses. AIMS To investigate the association between mental illness and ischaemic heart disease (IHD) hospital admissions, revascularisation procedures and deaths. METHOD A population-based record-linkage study of 210 129 users of mental health services in Western Australia during 1980-1998. IHD mortality rates,...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of a mental illness diagnosis on quality of care and outcomes among patients with heart failure. DESIGN Retrospective, national, population-based sample of patients with heart failure hospitalized from April 1, 1998, through March 31, 1999, and July 1, 2000, through June 30, 2001. SETTING Nonfederal US acute care hospitals. PATIENTS A total of 53 314 Medic...

objective: erroneous beliefs about causation and lack of adequate knowledge have been found to sustain deep seated negative attitudes about mental illness. conversely, better knowledge results in improved attitudes towards people with mental illness and a belief that mental illnesses are treatable can encourage early treatment seeking and promote better outcomes. the aim of this study was to as...