Primary Care Behavioral Health Consultation model (PCBH) is a psychological approach to population-based clinical health care that is simultaneously co-located, collaborative, and integrated within the primary care clinic. The goal of PCBH is to improve and promote overall health within the general population. This approach is important because approximately half of all patients in primary care present with psychiatric comorbidities, and 60% of psychiatric illness is treated in primary care.
Prison Industrial Complex. The Prison Industrial Complex is a system situated at the intersection of government and private interest. It uses prisons as a solution to social, political and economic problems.
What caused the rise of the prison-industrial complex? The number of people in prison has increased 700% since 1970. Is it just because people are committing more violent crimes now? Actually, no, the rate of violent crimes has been decreasing for two decades, while the number of people in prison rises.