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referrals for mental health care in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 up 39% in a year

📌 The number of children in England needing treatment for serious mental health problems has risen by 39% in a year

📌Causes: Pandemic, social inequality, austerity and online harm

📌 The figures include children who are suicidal, self-harming, suffering serious depression or anxiety, and those with eating disorders

theguardian.com/society/2023/j

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It doesn't make any promises, but gives lots of food for thought:

" through the greenery and litter of a mini 's undergrowth for just one month may be enough to change 's , according to an experiment in ...

The experiment ... was the first to explicitly manipulate a 's and then test for changes in their and, in turn, a child's system."

sciencealert.com/daycares-in-f

#playing #forest #children #immunesystem #finland #Child #urban #environment #microbiome #immune

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I think a lot about what it means to build a proper home for my patients. How to make systems more for newly-arrived children in where we have high rates of and . The medical, mental health + economic needs are complex + daunting. But our are always our greatest and mine have taught me that centering is the fundamental core of a true medical home. There is no without dignity.

#medical #equitable #uninsured #immigrant #louisiana #Child #poverty #FoodInsecurity #patients #teachers #dignity #equity

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The International Epidemiological Association calls for global vaccination against

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/364270

#Child #COVID19

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Bill Gardner · @BillGardner
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I trained as a child psychologist and statistician. I am a professor of & at , where I study and and .

I am also a patient in the first person about the . Please subscribe at billgardner.substack.com/.

#epidemiology #psychiatry #uottawa #Child #adolescent #populationhealth #mental_health #cancer #writing #end_of_life

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