Burnout: A psychological syndrome from emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and decreased personal accomplishment. Can also include cynicism (Stehman, et al., 2019).
Submitted as part of the BMS-515 Public Health and US...
The low accessibility to mental health care in the United States is a major public health problem. This poster reviews the literature on the causes and consequences associated with low accessibility to mental health care, such...
What is Overmedication?
Overmedication is a very broad term with many definitions, each centering around the concept of administering too much medication(s). Though not to the point where it may be considered an overdose,...
In the United States, one of the biggest issues that every state is experiencing is the shortage in doctors. Primary Care Physicians make up a huge percentage of the shortage in doctors. The Midwest took a huge hit by this...
Increasing Demands for Mental Health Services
- Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death in ages 10 -14 after
unintentional injury
- Pediatric mental health-related emergency department
visits have almost doubled in...
In recent medical history, vaccinations have facilitated the reduction/eradication of many transmissible diseases (Olusanya et al., 2021). Recently, a growing reluctance of parents to vaccinate their children is a pertinent...
What is Work-Life Balance?
The Cambridge dictionary defines work-life balance as “the amount of time you spend doing your job compared with the amount of time you spend with your family and doing things you enjoy.”
For...
The annual increase on price of pharmaceuticals are becoming a growing health concern in the United States for patients, prescribers, and policy makers.
Why is this an issue?
• Prices of newly marketed and pre-existing...
Wisser, Layla, Hartman, Taylor, Young, Emily, and Mason, Tina
Beschreibung:
Background
Access to healthcare is a multidimensional concept influenced by many factors:
- Individuals of lower socioeconomic status tend to have a more difficult time accessing care leading to poorer health (McMaughan et...
“The legacy of slavery still shadows the American health-care system The inequalities of the health system were built in from the beginning,” said former Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds.
The legacy of slavery as a...