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March 11, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
Bonnie Zima, an alumna of the RWJF Clinical Scholars program, published a study this month that appeared in a special supplement of Pediatrics on child health quality.
July 30, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
In the next six months, I met 39 other gunshot victims whose experiences closely mirrored Ervin’s. In different ways, each of these victims explained how getting shot was not only physically and psychologically trying, it was also a drain on their ...
December 27, 2011 | New Public Health Post
A recent Reuters in-depth report finds that slashes to state mental health budgets as well as job and home losses from the economic downturn of the last few years have led to an increase in people seeking care for mental illness at emergency rooms. ...
November 2, 2011 | New Public Health Post
The recent first-ever Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report on mental health issues in America, found that half of all Americans have a mental health issue at some point in their lives. Pamela Hyde, JD, Administrator of the Substance Abu ...
April 25, 2013 | New Public Health Post
NPR reported that business owners near the Boston Marathon blast site are beginning to return. To help make sure businesses can reopen safely, public health inspectors played a role. Longer term, public health also plays a mental health support role.
April 24, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
RWJF Health & Society Scholar Jason Houle, recently published a study that finds association between depressive symptoms and mortality is due to later health problems, not prior physical health conditions.
January 22, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
A study finds that incarceration increases the risk of mood disorders after release and that these disorders increase disability.
January 3, 2013 | New Public Health Post
Mental health has become a more prominent topic since the recent shooting in Newtown, Conn., that claimed 26 lives, 20 of them children. The Alliance for Health Reform, a non-profit group based in Washington, D.C., that provides information to journ ...
December 21, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
E. Alison Holman studies early cognitive predictors of long-term adjustment following trauma, and how people cope with highly stressful experiences with special interest in understanding how trauma affects long-term mental and physical health.
December 10, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Caregivers make difficult personal choices on an everyday basis that frequently involve personal sacrifice of time spent in leisure activities, time with family beyond the specific caregiving relationship, and time spent enjoying and maintaining normal social networks that enhance wellness.