Supporting the Medical Care of People Living with Serious Mental Illness: A Course for Case Managers

Supporting the Medical Care of People Living with Serious Mental Illness A Course for Case Managers

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This FREE online course was developed by the AIMS Center at the University of Washington with funding provided by HealthierHere.

People living with serious mental illness die on average 25 years earlier than people in the general population, largely due to cardiovascular diseases like strokes and heart attacks. In recent years, behavioral health agencies have taken on responsibility to monitor and support the health status of their clients.

Case managers in behavioral health agencies form the backbone of efforts to improve the medical outcomes of people living with serious mental illness. This course is designed to prepare case managers for this work.

This free online course reviews the reality of increased premature mortality in people living with serious mental illness, explores the medical and social causes of this increased mortality as well as approaches to reducing it and introduces some practical tools and approaches to improving health in the populations case managers serve.


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