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Cultural Mental Healthcare Disparities

Diversity Nursing

There are large disparities in mental healthcare across races and ethnicities in the U.S. Many factors contribute to the poor mental health outcomes of minority populations. Such as: Inaccessible mental healthcare services. Lacking health insurance coverage. Cultural stigma regarding mental healthcare.

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Working with Patients with Serious Mental Illness and Using LAIs

Daily Nurse

ACT provides high-level, wraparound care to what are often the sickest of patients in the community, who otherwise struggle to engage in their mental health treatment on their own without a great amount of staff support. Adherence tends to be even more of an issue within psychiatry. How can using LAIs improve public health?

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A warming planet and human health

American Nurse

A warmer planet increases risks related to physical and mental health. Planetary warming combined with societal inequity result in disastrous impacts of wildfires, extreme temperatures, and severe storms on human health and well-being. Many people face greater risk of poor health outcomes just because of where they live.

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Full Practice Authority: APRN Readiness, Barriers to Practice and Access in South Carolina

American Nurse

The 2022 public health data paint a dismal picture for chronic disease management and outcomes ( Table 1 ). Additional data highlights 27 of 46 counties having none or fewer than three primary or specialty physicians in the areas of family, women’s health, pediatrics, and psychiatry per 10,000 people. 2021, December).

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