May Is Mental Health Awareness Month!
Please explore the links below for information and toolkits on mental health:
- The Mental Health Coalition
Moral Stress and Moral Distress: Confronting Challenges in Healthcare Systems under Pressure
The American Journal of Bioethics: Mara Buchbinder, Alyssa Browne, Nancy Berlinger, Tania Jenkins, and Liza Buchbinder
Stresses on healthcare systems and moral distress among clinicians are urgent, intertwined bioethical problems in contemporary healthcare. Yet conceptualizations of moral distress in bioethical inquiry often overlook a range of routine threats to professional integrity in healthcare work. Using examples from our research on frontline physicians, this article clarifies conceptual distinctions between moral distress, moral injury, and moral stress and illustrates how these concepts operate together in healthcare work.
The U.S. Founding Fathers Recognized the Benefits of Immunization—We Need That Same Recognition Today
Annals of Internal Medicine: Amir Qaseem, MD, PhD, MHA, and Christine Laine, MD, MPH
This new editorial highlights the importance of understanding the evidence documenting how the benefits of recommended vaccines outweigh potential harms and how to counter misinformation by providing the public with science-based information.
All In for Mental Health
Dr. Lorna Breen Foundation
Let's eliminate systemic barriers to mental health care for health workers. By working together, we can build a system that prioritizes mental health for those who care for us, ensuring health workers can access mental health care without fear of repercussions.
New WHO guidance calls for urgent transformation of mental health policies
World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) today launched new guidance to help all countries reform and strengthen mental health policies and systems. Mental health services worldwide remain underfunded, with major gaps in access and quality. In some countries, up to 90% of people with severe mental health conditions receive no care at all, while many existing services rely on outdated institutional models that fail to meet international human rights standards.
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