Tokyo, Japan, 24 March, 2011 –Elsevier, a world leader in health care and medical publishing and online solutions, today announced that following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, the company is providing free access to its primary online clinical reference tools – MD Consult and First Consult – to all IPs originating from Japan. Free access will be available through June, 2011. This effort is part of a new initiative to provide easily accessible focused resources in response to world events that present difficult medical challenges.MD Consult is an authoritative combination of clinically relevant information to give medical professionals an answer to their clinical questions, stay abreast of recent developments, and educate patients, resulting in better patient care and improved outcomes. First Consult is Elsevier’s point-of-care content that is integrated within MD Consult and leverages evidence-based medical information to deliver answers that are trusted, quick, and accessible.If access to a desktop computer is problematic, MD Consult has a mobile version, and First Consult has aniPhone/iPad appthat provides offline access to First Consult’s content in areas that have limited or no internet connectivity. Elsevier is also providing free online access to medical information for healthcare professionals in Japan through the Emergency Access Initiative (EAI), a partnership of the National Library of Medicine and the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers and other publishers. EAI provides temporary free access to full-text articles from major biomedicine titles to healthcare professionals, librarians and the public affected by disasters. The idea for EAI was proposed in the aftermath of 9/11, but its first real use was in response to last year's earthquake in Haiti.Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet (www.thelancet.com) and Cell (www.cell.com), and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier’s online solutions include SciVerse ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), SciVerse Scopus (www.scopus.com), Reaxys (www.reaxys.com), MD Consult (www.mdconsult.com) and Nursing Consult (www.nursingconsult.com), which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite (www.scival.com) and MEDai’s Pinpoint Review (www.medai.com), which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier (www.elsevier.com) employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC (http://www.reedelsevier.com/), a world-leading publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange). Vice President, Global Corporate Relations« return to mental health news
Mental illnesses are assuming endemic proportions.Mental disorders attributable to nervous system problems have been identified as a leading cause of disability among young adults. A new study published in The Lancet on Monday shows that mental disorders, mostly unipolar major depression, alcohol use, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder, are the leading causes of disability globally. Together they represent 45 per cent of the disease burden among people aged 10- 24 years.Unipolar or major depression is a mental disorder marked by low self esteem, and a loss of interest in enjoyable activities. Schizophrenia involves a disintegration of thoughts and emotions, often manifesting as hallucination and disorganised speech and thinking. Bipolar involves periods of elevated or irritable mood called mania, alternating with depression - mood swings.“These disorders are largely absent from public health programmes," Fiona Gore from World Health Organisation (WHO) noted.Some of the major risk factors that affect health in later life include alcohol use, unsafe sex, iron deficiency, and lack of contraception, the study added.Copyright 2011 Mail Today, distributed by Contify.com