Of People With Chronic Illness
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Chronic Disease Prevention and Management
www.ncsl.orgChronic disease affects the majority of Americans: 51 percent of adults have at least one chronic condition, and 26 percent live with multiple chronic diseases. • The number of people with chronic conditions is increasing rapidly; by 2020, an estimated 47 percent of the nation’s population will have a chronic condition.10 •
THE MYTH OF MENTAL ILLNESS
depts.washington.edubetween people is regarded as something. inherently harmonious, its disturbance being due solely to the presence of "mental illness" in many people. This is obviously fallacious reasoning, for it makes the abstraction "mental illness" into a. cause, even though this abstraction was created in the first place to serve only as a shorthand ...
Behavioral Health Services for People Who are Homeless
store.samhsa.govindividuals, and 37,252 people experiencing homelessness were veterans (HUD, 2021). Ending homelessness is an important public health issue in the United States. Many experiencing homelessness have high rates of chronic and co-occurring health conditions, mental and substance use disorders.
Air Pollution and the Health of New Yorkers
www1.nyc.govobserved in people exposed to PM 2.5 include increased airway inflammation and sensitivity, decreased lung function, changes in heart rhythm and blood flow, increased blood pressure, increases in the tendency to form blood clots, and biological markers of inflammation (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 2009). These