Why mental health service delivery needs to align alongside mainstream medical services.

There is significant individual human suffering and economic burden because of untreated mental health and substance use disorders. There is high psychiatric morbidity in primary and secondary medical care. At least one-fifth of patients attending primary care services in western countries pertain to mental health and one-third of patients attending general hospitals have a comorbid mental disorder.

The COVID-19 pandemic: an opportunity to make mental health a higher public health priority.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was first recognised in December 2019. The subsequent pandemic has caused 4.3 million deaths and affected the lives of billions.

The Significance of Environmental Attributes as Indicators of the Life Cycle Environmental Impacts of Packaging and Food Service Ware.

The environmental impacts of packaging and food service ware (FSW) are increasingly the subject of government policy, public discourse, and industry commitments. While some consideration is given to reducing the impacts of packaging across its entire life cycle, most of the focus is on packaging waste or feedstock substitution. Efforts typically focus on specific packaging characteristics, or material attributes, commonly perceived to be environmentally preferable.

An evaluation of automated, internet-based psychiatric history taking.

History taking using a web-based, automated software module (Historian) was compared with standard outpatient initial assessment on a community sample of 27 new psychiatric outpatients. The comprehensiveness and acceptability of the computer interview was evaluated. Historian was found to take psychiatric histories comparable with regard to content and comprehensiveness with those taken by clinicians.

Depression in Parkinson's disease: diagnosis and management.

Parkinson's disease has a high prevalence of psychiatric comorbidity including depression. This review highlights the epidemiology, aetiology and diagnosis of depression in patients with Parkinson's disease. Recommendations are made on treatment and a closer partnership between neurology and psychiatry.