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By 2030, reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being

United States

CURRENT KNOWLEDGE

Resources

Mental Health

Developmental Disabilities 

Medical Info

For when medical care is not accessible: 

Lay-Person Tasks

  • This is a list of the most important tasks you can do to achieve this goal.
  1. Connect with others and build a strong support system, to support yourself and others. People who are well-connected have significantly less health issues, even if their physical environment or lifestyle is unhealthy. 

  • Commit to contacting 1-5 people once a week. If you don’t know that many people, commit to making 1-5 friends. Understand that if you don’t like talking to people, that is a normal but often misleading feeling, and many times you won’t notice how much your health has improved by talking to people, even if it has improved significantly. 

  • Commit to doing either one hour or one thing per week to help someone in your community- volunteer work through an organization doesn’t count. If this goal really speaks to you, consider finding a person who is disabled who doesn’t have access to medical care and help them get connected. 

  1. Work on your mental health. Many people who struggle with mental health often recover when the people around them work on themselves. This is important to do even if you don’t think you know anyone with mental illness- because a lot of the time you don’t know what others are going through! This is also important for your own health.
  • Learn 20 coping skills, and commit to practicing a skill once a week or once a day. Continue until using coping skills feels natural to do. 

Do the work! 

  • Identify one thing you struggle with when it comes to your mental health. 

  • Learn about it, by doing research and personal reflection.

  • Create a tangible plan on how to improve it.

  • Revisit your plan once a week or however often makes sense for you, and write notes on your progress! 

  1. Find out what preventative screenings for illnesses you need based on your age, and make appointments for it.

  2. Go through the lay person list in Goal 3.3. Many people die from complications or comorbid conditions of contagious illnesses, as well as simply dying from the contagious illness alone. You can save lives by staying healthy and not spreading illnesses you get. 

Activist Resources

Potential Organizations

Informational Resources

Mental Health 

Mental Health for men

Books

TikTok

POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS

Paradigms

Goals

  • Base diagnoses off of physiology, and not based on how much the patient has spent in order to purchase the diagnosis.

Rules

  • Make it illegal to disable or kill a person- regardless of a method. Examples include landlord or roommate refusal to repair or prevent mold damage, forced emotional labor/psychological abuse & death by eating disorder or suicide. 

  • United States food is absolutely terrible and killing us. Identify what these ingredients are and ban them. California recently passed a law for this. 

  • Make it easier for people to reduce their exposure to carcinogens. Legally remove chemicals and chemical use that isn’t 100% necessary. 

  • Have it so minors can fill out a psychiatric advanced directive before the age of 18. Have it so a psychiatrist, therapist, or general practitioner is required to provide their client information and resources on psychiatric advanced directives:

  • Maintain alternative medicine treatments by ending climate change. See climate action goal 13. 

  • Prioritize prevention of death for these issues. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm 

Information Flows

  • Make a medically accurate TV show about a doctor treating patients. All episodes are about the most common problems that can be solved with home treatment, including anything an ER doctor would do that could technically be done without needing advanced training. 

  • Make it easier for people to follow medical diets by organizing foods in the grocery store according to common medical diets, but don’t advertize it that way- advertise it as “reduced (ingredient) section” so people still check the labels, the point is to make it less time consuming, it’s not a safety measure. 

  • In K-12, teach everyone, especially males, how to avoid accidents and not die. Also let people know about conditions that make them vulnerable to injury, such as ADHD. 

  • Encourage those with chronic illnesses to track their symptoms and give them resources to do so. 

  • Have chronic-illness diagnoses searches where people can input their symptoms to help determine what they should get tested for. 

Stock and Flow Structures

  • Community Care Takers https://radpride.wixsite.com/start-posting/post/community-care-takers 

  • Integrated Maintenance Practice https://www.amazon.com/Integrated-Maintenance-Practice-Curriculum-Book-ebook/dp/

  • Eastern medicine integrated into hospitals. And Eastern medicine hospitals.

  • Have 24-hour urgent care clinics in the same place as emergency rooms. (Potentially have just one staff member during night hours) 

  • Have an organization of emotional labor. This can include co-regulation, surrogate partnership, and surrogate family. Emotional labor is something everyone needs to do, so they would provide different types of emotional labor training and practice sessions, (both classes and intensive) as well as investigation of forced emotional labor. Emotional laborers would be experts in discrimination and all forms of abuse. 

  • Babysitting for hospitalization for children, disabled people (caregiving), (I think for people there should be a wing in the hospital, with driving babysitters for appointments, especially to prevent abuse) pets, and farm animals.

  • Palliative care to prevent hospitalization

  • All doctors and services are required to have mobile services to provide home visits, in order to reduce hospitalization 

  • Medication care-takers and caretaker pharmacies. They are caregivers, but only and specifically for medication. They coordinate prescriptions, appointments, do pharmacy runs, pick it up and give it to the client depending on the dose. (ex. daily) Here’s what else they do:

Medication centers serving: 

  • For safety of workers, as well as safety of clients, this service is voluntary. There are zero requirements to participate in the program- anyone can access any services

  • Clients can choose what workers come to their house; ex. women only

  • people who need assistance taking their medications, ex. people with mental illness, and people who are elderly, disabled, or recovering from illness. Medication assistant can stay for an additional 15 minutes, or longer if they don’t have other patients, and assist with household tasks or socialize

  • people who are homeless, or anyone who doesn’t have regular access to medication. Medication assistant has supplies to provide people. They can provide supplies to people who are not clients as long as they have enough left for other clients 

  • people who struggle with addiction to their medication, or don’t struggle with addiction but want to prevent that. For chronic pain patients, as-needed medications for pain crises are delivered with vehicles that have sirens

  • people who have gaps in meds due to affordability, medication that was lost or damaged, etc. 

  • people who have gaps in meds due to issues with pharmacies or doctors appointments

  • people who are on house arrest

  • the center holds pharmacies and doctors offices accountable by collecting data on prescription gaps and medical malpractice

  • the center has a program to make medication more accessible, everything from providing electric pill boxes to installing a delivery slot in a door.

  • if hospitals do not have medications in stock; data is collected on how many people use medications that tend to not be in stock, especially less common ones

  • extra medication stock for medication shortages and disaster situations

  • In addition to a pharmacist, there are eastern medicine practitioners who address safe use of eastern medicine and have a stock of eastern medicine 

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