Health Issues Of Ill Health

Introduction Mental ill-health is a pervasive public health issue impacting about 46 per cent of Australians aged between sixteen and eighty-five during their lifetime (AIHW 2016, p. 2). Results from the National Health Survey (ABS 2015) revealed mental and behavioural conditions to be the most prevalent long-term health condition experienced by Australians. Here, anxiety-related conditions were most frequently reported (ABS 2015). Amid the Australian population, those aged between sixteen and twenty-four

society there are many different sociological approaches to health and ill health. Within society there are many different perspectives towards whom the responsibility for health falls upon and also what defines people as ill? Your health is defined by the general condition of your body and mind. An illness is defined by an impairment of normal physical or mental function. To help explain the different sociological approaches to health and ill health I will be referring to the case study of Aziz and Tamsela

the American mental health system is disorganized with “eleven major Federal departments and agencies sharing the task of administering 135 programs for the mentally disabled” (Sanity 4). There is no process that is streamlined and efficient or compassionate because the federal government cannot create that system; the federal government has too broad of a scope to both treat mental illness and shift the social attitudes of the structure. In 1963, Kennedy’s plan for mental health was put in effect

States has the highest incarceration rate in the world and of that over sixty percent of jail inmates reported having a mental health issue and 316,000 of them are severely mentally ill (Raphael & Stoll, 2013). Correctional facilities in the United States have become the primary mental health institutions today (Adams & Ferrandino, 2008). This imprisonment of the mentally ill in the United States has increased the incarceration rate and has left those individuals medically untreated and emotionally

because a huge number of mentally ill offenders are being downgraded to extended status during custodial supervision orders. Moreover, offenders who have been released into the community’s care have been granted such measures through revocation of supervision orders. In contrast, the Mental Health Act 2000 has helped in determining how an individual should be processed through the criminal justice system or mental health system instead of his/her mental health issues. However, this legislation has

Knoll, James. "A Tale of Two Crises: Mental Health Treatment in Corrections." Journal of Dual Diagnosis, vol. 3, no. 1, Dec. 2006, pp. 7-21. In this journal article by James Knoll, he describes the issue of inadequate care for the mentally ill in the correctional system. He states that part of the issue is the merging of correctional systems with the mental health systems due to deinstitutionalization. Mentally ill individuals are getting criminalized and find themselves in a perilous situation.

Mental Health Brief What’s the issue? The lack of mental health services available to the mentally-ill and the deinstitutionalization of mental health hospitals have created a public health concern. These issues along with failed continuum of care strategies and a lack of community mental health services are major contributing factors to homelessness. In addition, the strict guidelines for psychiatric hospitalization are critical when analyzing homelessness among the mentally-ill. In many cases,

current mental health funding is unable to cater for all mental health needs, forcing prisons to become the new mental health institutions.” Jacob Ellis “Statistics suggest that, with one in 5 adults, and 27 per cent of young Australians, suffering some form of mental illness, current mental health funding is unable to cater for all mental health needs, forcing prisons to become the new mental health institutions.” Mental Health Services in Australia’s Criminal Justice System Mental Health Services

Introduction This article “Sexuality and the Chronically Ill Older Adult: A Social Justice Issue” is published in the journal Sexuality and Disability and the authors are Verna C Pangman and Marilyn Seguire. The article provides an overview and outline on sexuality in the older adult with a chronic illness. In today’s world, according to Verna C Pangman and Marilyn Seguire, sexuality for the older adult and the elderly is a “taboo” word, and if mentioned, fear and apprehension by the older adult

Nature and Scope of the Issue An unfortunate reality in today’s society is the gross overrepresentation of persons with mental illness in the criminal justice system. According to Teplin (1984), persons with mental illness have been found to be almost twice as likely as individuals without any known mental illness to be arrested for their behavior in similar situations. Furthermore, several other studies have even shown that roughly half of all persons with a mental illness have been arrested