substance use disorders in the health professions

... mhgap-info@who.int Website: www.who.int/mental _health/ mhgap Printed in Italy mhGAP-IG mhGAP Intervention Guide for mental, neurological and substance use disorders in non-specialized health settings ... supervised and supported in using the mhGAP-IG in assessing and managing people with mental, neurological and substance use disorders Introduction It is not the intention of the mhGAP-IG to cover ... being distributed without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied The responsibility for the interpretation and use of the material lies with the reader In no event shall the World Health...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:20

... about the patients’ level of morbidity were the HoNOS (except the substance use item) The substance use item of the HoNOS was used as one of the SUD group defining criteria We categorized the HoNOS ... (score 5) Before the first two surveys in 2002 and 2005, the clinicians at the eight CMHCs were trained in rating the HoNOS, the AUS and the DUS Before each of the three surveys they had an optional ... addition to the ICD-10 diagnoses, the centres used the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS) which includes a score on substance use problems, the Alcohol Use Scale (AUS) and the Drug Use Scale...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the ... Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute of Medicine ... few Indeed, the health professions and health care industry are fighting to retain the public’s confidence that the U.S health care system can continue to be the world’s best Compounding these...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 01:20

... new beginnings Continuity is the exception; adapting to discontinuity is an emerging problem of the era (Bateson, 1990) Composing a life involves continual reimagining of the future and reinterpretation ... hermeneutics, invites ongoing dialogue and makes possible the making, preserving, and sharing of meaning Symbolism and openness abound in the gathering of hundreds of individual pieces in their path ... listening, and further suggests that listening involves “attending to both the dominant and the muted meanings [and] searching for the pain and stories that lie outside expectable discussion.” Ingrid...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 09:20

... survey of these practitioners regarding their perceived needs to better serve the for the community and the gaps that they recognized in their own training.11 The data was then used to define competencies ... and the direction of interdisciplinary teams is essential for the development of professionals in low resource settings Conclusion The health- professions in the 21st century should increase their ... determine when competency has been achieved Defining the health needs of the community A CBE program has the potential to improve the health of the community it serves only to the extent that it uses...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 21:20

... Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute of Medicine ... whether the public is receiving care of the highest possibly quality and safety Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions is the result of the work by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) ... REDESIGNING CONTINUING EDUCATION IN THE HEALTH PROFESSIONS Committee on Planning a Continuing Health Care Professional Education Institute Board on Health Care Services THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20

... provided other reasons for wanting to work in a rural area, including professional support, coastal location, happiness, owning a farm, loving the bush and wanting to live there, financial incentives ... said they would work in the Northern Territory or the Kimberly region of Western Australia (WA) On the other hand, just 4% of students were willing to work in the south-eastern corner of WA Within ... Methods The Careers in Rural Health Tracking Survey (CIRHTS) was designed to examine employment preferences and decision criteria that medical, nursing and allied health students use in determining...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... Because of the study design, there were non-respondents in two study phases: in the questionnaire containing the screens for the interview, and in the interview Of the 1863 members of the original ... collection in the Health 2000 and Mental Health in Early Adulthood in Finland (MEAF) studies Figure Sampling and data collection in the Health 2000 and Mental Health in Early Adulthood in Finland ... and other substance use disorders in young adults in the present study fit well with the known profile of substance use in the Nordic countries, characterized by a high level of drinking to intoxication...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... to the face-to-face training Finally, the new timing takes advantage of the 'captive audience' because they will be required to complete the ORCA as the final portion of the face-to-face training ... asked whether vaccinations for hepatitis A and B were available in their clinic Finally, they were asked to report whether they provided education regarding hepatitis infections in their clinic and ... properties, the ORCA fits many of the recommendations found in the Weiner review regarding defining and measuring the construct of organizational readiness to change [6] The ORCA measures readiness...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... see this is to perceive the importance for moral thinking of the other arm of the dilemma facing the father in the example above, that is, the value of the family or the community which communitarians ... ethical decision-making in health care, how are we to reach even local consensus in the making of ethical decisions of the kind confronting the father at the beginning of this introduction? What seems ... upon the common resources of the HMO, then the existing members have the right to refuse him or her membership Again, ‘justice’ is defined in terms of the rules of the HMO ‘Cherry picking’ is, in...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 04:20

... the uncertainty and the potential for human failure inherent in judgement-making Again, the field is dominated by analyses of clinical reasoning in biomedicine and professions allied to medicine ... put them first In being involved in the situation, by being aware of the components of the situation and then by examining my responses, I believe I have become increasingly more effective in my ... Clinical Judgement in the Health and Welfare Professions Extending the evidence base Clinical Judgement in the Health and Welfare Professions Extending the evidence base Susan...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:20

... determine if they were ‘‘leading’’ in nature The textual data from any questions identified as being leading were not included in the analysis The reviewer was in agreement with the findings based ... explore the professional socialization of certified athletic trainers (ATCs) in the high school setting in order to gain insight and understanding into how they initially learned and continued ... explore the professional socialization of certified athletic trainers in the high school setting and to gain insight into how they initially learned and continued to learn their responsibilities in...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:20

... the study, participated in its design, and implemented the project All the authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests ... Stata for the three-year observation period, using the number of deaths observed in SLAM records in these three years as the numerator The denominator was the expected number of deaths in a year ... substance use disorders appeared more heterogeneous, although confidence intervals were wide and overlapping As displayed in Table 3, SMRs for all disorders diminished in strength with increasing age...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... Klin Psychol Psychiatr Psychother 1998, 46:105-124 Brady KT, Malcom RJ: Substance use disorders and co-occuring axis I psychiatric disorders In The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Substance ... computerized interview measures DSM-IV Axis I disorders including substance- related disorders, mood, psychotic, anxiety, adjustment, somatoform and eating disorders (2) To access the DSM-IV-TR disorders ... diagnosis includes any diagnosis that appeared during lifetime, including present disorders (3) The Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND) [41] was used to rate the extent of nicotineaddiction...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... grateful for the participation and support of the following institutions in the field testing of this tool: the Ministry of Health, Belize; the Ministry of Health, Honduras; the Ministry of Health, ... which these are linked to health and HIV, there is the goal of increasing understanding of these concepts On the other hand, for users of the tool who already have some basic understanding of ... to Support Health (GTZ/TGPSH) The field test was successful in raising awareness among the users of the tool regarding the links between gender inequalities and HIV/AIDS The results of the field...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 00:20

... types of land cover These combinations will be used for the classification for the land cover types for which the combination is the most discriminative Due to the constraints of the spatial resolution ... Evaluation of ASTER data use in land use study in the Mekong Delta 29 discrimination capacity of ASTER data in land use mapping of such a dynamic area as the Mekong Delta in Vietnam Forest stand ... digitizing the satellite image This is not an optimal approach (Congalton and Green, 1999), but the digitizing was performed independently from training areas by a well trained person not involved in...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 12:20

... progress in making the internet available in the least developed countries, especially in the rural areas’ By including the rural population in the group of beneficiaries of ICT initiatives in the health ... are involved in the effective use of ICTs in the health sector Section explores potential and actual use of ICTs in the health sector It examines the ways in which ICTs can help to strengthen ... of the household income on average – in some cases it was as high as 40% of the household income The increase in household income meant improved food security, a greater ability to invest in health, ...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 09:20

... that occurs in plants being activated in the morning to protect plants from the heat of the sun and others being activated in the evening to protect them from cold temperatures and freezing! Cyclic ... cardiorespiratory monitoring in the neonatal intensive care unit An examination of the pros and cons of the cardiopulmonary monitoring techniques used in the neonate follows The main focus of this part ... factors in determining respiratory output The second part, which focuses on respiratory control disorders, begins with an overview The diagnosis of these disorders in the neonate often begins with...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 17:20

... segments of the population Improvements in the health of persons in their 60s can be linked to eventual deterioration in the health of those in their 80s (5) This understanding of the complex ... trends in healthy life, which is a combination of mortality and morbidity dimensions BACKGROUND Theoretical Underpinnings of the Study of Trends in Health Theoretical development in the area of health ... mortality decline for the older population (81) Compared to the 1970s, there was substantial slowing in the rate of mortality decline in the 1980s among the entire older population in the United...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... distributing educational pamphlets to the elderly: In the initial phase of the study, educational materials were designed and prepared in order to support the volunteers During the initial phase of the ... was meaningful Having a meaningful life and a feeling of happiness in all age groups has increased after the interventions (P= 0.00) In women aged 70 and older, Not being worried about the future, ... and after the interventions In terms of food preferences, in the women's group, in all age groups, the food most preferred before and after the interventions was bread but regarding the second...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20