A Canadian Call for Addressing Physical Health in Specialized Mental Health Settings.

Abstract

People with serious mental illness experience poorer physical health and higher mortality rates than the general population. One option for responding to this disparity is reverse integration, which promotes physical health monitoring in secondary and tertiary mental health settings. Health leaders in Canada can learn from reverse integration approaches that have been adopted or proposed in other jurisdictions. We conducted a jurisdictional scan and applied the 3I framework for policy analysis to suggest that Canadian adaptations of existing approaches should foreground equity, build on existing infrastructure and human resources and prioritize leadership of people with lived experience.