Resource Types: Report

Focuses on state-mandated benefits, state laws regulating mental health and addiction treatment workers, and state-recognized mental health clinicians with authority to prescribe psychotropic medications.

In 2003, Oregon had the fourth highest suicide rate among older adults in the US. This plan identifies three primary strategies to prevent suicide in older adults: clinically based suicide prevention; community-based suicide prevention; and public health surveillance, program evaluation, and research.

This compendium presents examples of state-level injury and violence prevention programs, including suicide prevention programs, to illustrate the variety of issues faced by state health departments in preventing injury and violence, and shows the results that state programs can achieve in this area.

With the help of researchers, the administrator of a jail in a Northern Plains State found out how culture can help identify detainees’ risk for suicide.

Overviews 30 research studies on the subject. Conclusions: available research suggests that depression is one of the most common perinatal complications and that fairly accurate and feasible screening measures are available.

The study uses the 2001 National Health Interview Survey, a nationally representative survey of the U.S. population. Key findings: nearly 1 of every 4 rural children has a potential mental health problem; rural African-American children had the highest prevalence of conduct problems and hyperactive behavior; over 1.9 million rural children with mental health problems live in areas with minimal to no care available.

Summarizes the views and issues addressed at the workshop. Includes: an executive summary; an introduction to the background and purpose of the workshop; the Surgeon General’s Women’s Mental Health Project; and the state of women’s mental health.

This report represents the first national comprehensive effort to measure differences in access and use of health care services by various populations. The report includes a broad set of performance measures that can serve as baseline views of differences in the use of services. The report presents data on the differences in the use of services, access to health care, and impressions of quality for seven clinical conditions, including cancer, diabetes, end-stage renal disease, heart disease, HIV and AIDS, mental health, and respiratory disease as well as data on maternal and child health, nursing home and home health care, and patient safety. It also examines differences in use of services by priority populations.

These competencies and their related learning objectives were developed through the conduct of needs assessment exercises, a review of existing competencies in other disciplines, and the input of several existing professionals in the injury and violence prevention field. The page also provides access to other core competencies: Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals, Public Health Preparedness and Response Core Competencies and Applied Epidemiology Competencies

This issue brief by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices discusses what actions schools, governors, and state policymakers can take to strengthen statewide youth suicide prevention efforts.