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Mentalhealth 160721120329
Mentalhealth 160721120329
Dalia El-Shafei
Lecturer, Community Medicine Department, Zagazig
University
• State of well-being in which the individual:
• Realizes his own abilities,
• Cope with normal stresses of life,
Mental • Can work productively
• Able to make a contribution to community.
Health:
Illness:
1) Emotional balance.
2) Social adjustment.
Behavioral
disorders as
Schizophrenia maladjustment
&
absenteeism.
Psychosis &
depression
Mental illness & poor mental health are public problems
Great impact on:
• Distressing symptoms.
• Unable to participate in work & leisure.
Individuals • Quality of life continues to be poor: stigma &
discrimination.
• Economic burden
• Disruption of house hold routine & restricted social activities.
• Lost opportunities prevent them from achieving their
Family full potential in work & social relations.
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3. Education,
employment,
social well-being, Important role in preventing
availability of food, mental disorders & promoting
housing mental health.
4.Raising publicawareness about mental health
disorders.
Patients need ttt & kind care rather than
punishment.
5.Awareness of psychological development: development
of human being's cognitive, emotional, intellectual, &
social capabilities is functioning over course of life span
from infancy through old age.
In wars,
disasters Mental health problems increase
crisis
Need immediate intervention
situation
Course of disease
Social support ↓ Duration
intensity
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Cannabis: Depressant:
Hashish & Alcohol &
Barbiturates
Marijuana
Hallucinogens:
Stimulants:
(LSD) Amphetamin
e&
Cocaine.
1 Drug pharmacological effects, its ability to form psychic
dependence & tolerance.
2 Availability & easy accessibility of drugs.
3Immature aggressive persons & sociopathic personality.
4- Psychic & neurological illness.
5 Parents or friends are addicts.
6 Rapid socioeconomic changes & deterioration of family & social
life.
7 Work problems.
8 Youth & adolescents use drugs to escape from a problem, to have
new experience & to express independence.
1 Adverse physical, mental, social &
economic
consequences.
2 Alters neuromuscular coordination, reaction time
& judgment &↑ accidents.
3 ↑ Money expenditure for ttt of abusers.
4 ↑ Morbidity, withdrawal symptoms & premature
death due to over dose intake.
5 ↑ Absenteeism from work.
6↓ Quality & Quantity of work products.
7- ↑ Crime & violence.
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Eliminate illegal drug use.
Risk factors
Driver (Host):
Impaired alertness due to fatigue, Vehicle defects (Agent):
Drug abuse, Old models,
Worry, Bad maintenance,
Inadequate training, Variability in
Psychic upset. size.
Road:
Town planning, Vehicle:
Clean & wide roads, Period inspection
Good lightening & repair of
traffic signals. vehicles.
Prevention
Driver:
Health appraisal before license,
Rules for maximal speed. Training,
Use of seat belt,
Health education of pedestrians.
Animal bites
Burns: matches, boiling fluids, fire
Chemical poisoning: drugs
Collapse of old
building.
Electric shock: neglected maintenance,
exposed wire.
Fall on stairs, striking against furniture,
slippery floor
Wounds by sharp knives, pointed
articles.
Extreme of age.
Bad illumination,
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Primary prevention of accidents:
Sanitary environment.