Digital Technology As Effective And Efficient Tools To Improve Mental Health Care in APAC region
A report from KPMG covering the “rising social and economic cost of major depression” highlights the opportunity for mental healthcare to fully engage with evidence-based digital tools. As the world struggles to keep up with advances in digital technology, it is noted that the healthcare sector tends to be a late-adopter of these revolutionary technologies.
Study Shows Consumer Adoption of Digital Mental Health Care Is Going Strong
Digital health, including digital mental health, has moved from being a novel concept to being part of everyday healthcare delivery. Rock Health‘s 2022 Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey examined responses from USA-based adults to better understand “consumers’ attitudes toward and behaviours surrounding digital health.″
How to Design a Digital Antidote to Mental Health Discrimination and Relieve Self Stigma
Experts from England, Australia and New Zealand discuss how digital technology can support global efforts to eliminate mental health-related discrimination, and remove self-stigma.
GoMo Health Leads the Way with Digital Therapeutics
GoMo Health was established in 2013. Leveraging years of applied research in the “digital-to-human” behavioral and cognitive science of human motivation, activation, and resiliency, Bob Gold, Chief Behavioral Technologist and Founder began applying BehavioralRx®, his (then) emerging digital therapeutic engagement science to engage with millions of underserved and vulnerable patients, caregivers, and families with mental health challenges.
Finding Purpose: Get Into The Thick Of It With Our (Virtual) Journey Through An Island Of Self-introspection
Clearhead has just launched their new tool Finding Purpose with support from the nib Foundation: a free, interactive digital tool designed to help young people develop a greater sense of purpose and identity to improve their mental wellbeing.
Innerworld, a Web3 Tool, Brings Barrier-less Mental Health Care to the Metaverse
The metaverse is helping break down boundaries that previously hampered access to mental health care. Innerworld, whose chief strategy offer is renowned singer-songwriter Jewel, is a virtual reality app providing borderless peer-to-peer mental health support to users 24/7.
A Groundbreaking Solution for Men’s Mental Health
Identifying solutions for difficult problems like rising suicide rates among working-aged men (25-54 years old) requires bold and innovative thinking. In the United States, men account for 78% of all completed suicides and are roughly four-times more likely than women to die by suicide. It goes without saying that this is a complex issue with many unique, contributing variables, and to effectively address it, the solution must take a non-traditional approach.
Digital Mental Health for Postpartum Women: Perils, Pitfalls, and Promise
Postpartum mental health conditions are a public health concern, affecting a large number of reproductive-age women and their families. Postpartum depression alone affects at least 14% of new mothers and their families. However, very little has been written about how advances in digital mental health can benefit women in the postpartum period, or how those advances may poorly serve this vulnerable population.
