Our work aims to identify and address high-risk schizophrenia patients for whom intensive interventions will be of great value.
Our work aims to determine the magnitude and range of cardiometabolic health problems in people with schizophrenia and related enduring psychotic illnesses. It will also identify 鈥 at the earliest possible stage 鈥 those high-risk patients for whom intensive interventions are more likely to be of value in forestalling premature morbidity and mortality.
Schizophrenia is an incurable, relapsing and extraordinarily disabling mental health disorder. It has been described as 鈥溾 in the scientific journal听Nature. The enormous burden of associated physical comorbidities that contribute to markedly premature mortality goes largely unrecognised.
Our node will create a model for multimorbidity/chronicity that will provide opportunities to improve healthcare utilisation and physical health outcomes for all people with schizophrenia.
This new approach will provide important, unique information that is pivotal for optimal planning of integrated healthcare.
Phone:听+61 2 8627 1616
Email:听info.perkins@sydney.edu.au
John Hopkins Drive, Camperdown NSW 2006
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