Webinar
Turning the Tide on Mental Health Trends
Part of "Defying Despair Webinar Series"
Time & Location
One in five adults in the U.S. experience mental illness including common conditions like anxiety disorders and major depression. In addition to harming emotional well-being, mental illness threatens physical health by increasing the risk of chronic conditions like type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Americans also lose $193 billion in earnings each year due to mental illness.
The second part in our Defying Despair series, this webinar focused on current trends in mental and behavioral health and programs designed to turn the tide for the better. Speakers discussed:
- The data underpinning trends in mental and behavioral health and implications for prevention strategies
- Initiatives designed to break down barriers to behavioral health care by integrating services with physical health
- State policy issues like delivery system and payment reform that are instrumental in improving access to behavioral health care in Medicaid
- How mental health trends have manifested in rising rates of suicide and substance abuse and declining life expectancy
If you are in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741.
Presentations
Treating the Whole Person: Integrating Behavioral Health in New Jersey
Suzanne M. Kunis
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
Improving Behavioral Health: State Policy Approaches
Kitty Purington
National Academy for State Health Policy
Pain in the Nation: A Comprehensive Approach Needed to Address the Suicide and Substance Use Crisis
John Auerbach
Trust for America's Health
Trust for America's Health Resources
- Pain in the Nation: The drug, alcohol and suicide crises and need for a National Resilience Strategy
- Pain in the Nation: Education Brief
- Pain in the Nation: Healthcare Systems Brief
- Issue Brief: Pain in the Nation Update: Deaths from Alcohol, Drugs and Suicide Reach the Highest Level Ever Recorded
- Issue Brief: Pain in the Nation Update: While Deaths from Alcohol, Drugs, and Suicide Slowed Slightly in 2017, Rates Are Still at Historic Highs
- Pain in the Nation
Well Being Trust
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Published on: April 10, 2019. Updated on: October 20, 2020.
2019 Mental Health Trends in the U.S.
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