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The pandemic s negative impact on the mental health of millions of people has renewed discussions around why that nation s behavioral healthcare system has been inadequate to meet the level demand for care.
But the failure to meet patients mental health needs predated the pandemic. Approximately 43% of the more than 51 million adults estimated to have had a mental health condition in 2019 received treatment, according to care access data compiled by Mental Health America.
The care gap has prompted calls for healthcare providers to move swiftly toward integrating behavioral healthcare services into primary care. Holistic approaches to physical and mental healthcare have been shown to help identify more patients experiencing a mental health issue and provide them with earlier interventions that can improve outcomes.
Published: Feb 19, 2021 By Alex Keown
PICI – Bristol Myers Squibb veteran Ute Dugan was named Senior Vice President of Clinical Research at the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (PICI). She will oversee PICI’s clinical development, regulatory affairs and translational medicine efforts, with a focus on overcoming immunotherapy resistance and advancing novel breakthrough treatment combinations. At BMS, she was head of Worldwide Oncology External Medical Affairs, where she created research collaboration models to advance immune-oncology treatments together with partners in academia, professional societies and non-profit organizations. Dugan originally joined BMS as executive director of Global Clinical Research during the formation of the development teams for the pioneering I-O medicines ipilimumab and nivolumab. Before that, her career included stints at Roche/Genentech and Aventis.
gives a terrible message to people. it s especially a problem now to show contempt for people experiencing economic disstress. what is your theory of the case? did american people get lazier, less willing to work or is there a massive crisis that has destroyed the labor market. joining me now is jeffrey sax, director of the irving institute and professor at columbia institute. first of all on the question of makers takers, is that a useful economic framework to be thinking? it s a very crude one and a very cruel one as well. we re all takers by the way when you re young. that s a good point. and we re all takers when we re old, also and when we need help and many times of our life, we re takers and we re also makers. and so, the idea that somehow