Individuals with co-morbid chronic medical illness and psychiatric illness are a costly and
complex patient population, at high risk for poor outcomes. Health-risk behaviours (eg …

Excess morbidity and mortality in persons with serious mental illness is a public health crisis.
Numerous factors contribute to this health disparity, including illness and treatment-related …

Individuals with serious mental illnesses (SMI) treated in the public mental health sector die
decades younger than the general population. Poor quality and fragmentation of care are …

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The poor physical health of adults with serious mental illnesses is a public health crisis.
Greater integration of mental health and primary medical care services at the clinic and …

People with serious mental illness (SMI) face striking reductions in lifespan versus the
general population, in part due to the inadequacy of healthcare systems in meeting the …

Introduction The prevalence of smoking remains high among the medically underserved and
could be related to disparities in access to and use of smoking cessation treatments …

Method We conducted a systematic review of the peer-reviewed literature of studies that
evaluated strategies to improve integrated working in an AOD context. The findings of each …

There is increasing recognition that the psychiatrist workforce is insufficient to meet the
mental health needs of the US population (Wang et al. 2005). Integrated care models, such …

Patients with schizophrenia endure a markedly greater medical disease burden than the
general population. In particular, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases are highly …