Mental health

A systematic how-to guide to assist health care providers in leveraging social media to engage young adults.

Specialist physicians have experienced negative effects on their health, career plans and trajectory, and professional and personal relationships due to the family physician shortage.

During the course of their work, people may be exposed to a distressing event, and the impact of the exposure can linger.

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, health professionals hypothesized that a shadow pandemic of mental illness was imminent.[1] Mental health issues among adolescents have been increasing steadily in Canada since 2011.[2] Concerns regarding the impact on adolescent mental health[3] of school closures and limiting in-person contact with peers were warranted.

British Columbians living with mental health and substance use (MHSU) disorders are experiencing a “quality chasm”[1] and are dying at unprecedented rates, in part due to structural stigma. Structural stigma refers to the inequitable deprioritization, devaluation, and othering of MHSU—as compared with physical health—within health care delivery, governance, knowledge building, and training systems, creating and perpetuating health and social inequalities and poorer standards of care for people with MHSU disorders.