Physical Health Monitoring for Diverse Populations with Serious Mental Illness: Opportunity to Fill Gaps in Care-Lecture Presentation

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Video Summary

In this video, Dr. Christina Mangurian discusses the importance of physical health monitoring for diverse populations with serious mental illness. She emphasizes the increased burden of physical health diseases among people with serious mental illness compared to the general population and the gaps in screening for this population. Dr. Mangurian presents findings from various studies she has conducted, including low screening rates for diabetes, HIV, hepatitis C, cervical cancer, and breast cancer among people with serious mental illness. She also highlights disparities in care, such as lower screening rates among young adults and certain racial and ethnic groups. Dr. Mangurian provides recommendations for individual clinicians, such as adding screening for medical problems to the problem list for every patient, focusing on young adults, treating nicotine dependence, and learning about initiating treatment for common metabolic abnormalities. She also suggests clinical and system-level interventions, including health screening campaigns, onsite phlebotomy, onsite women's health services, and co-located primary care clinics. Dr. Mangurian concludes by discussing a reverse collaborative care model called Cranium, which aims to integrate physical health monitoring within specialty mental health settings. Overall, the video highlights the importance of addressing the physical health needs of people with serious mental illness and offers practical strategies for improving care.

Keywords

physical health monitoring

diverse populations

serious mental illness

health screening

disparities in care

medical problems screening

metabolic abnormalities treatment

integrated healthcare model