{"id":399084,"date":"2022-08-11T23:11:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T17:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.bullfrag.com\/amazon-care-includes-mental-health-in-its-services\/"},"modified":"2022-08-11T23:11:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T17:41:58","slug":"amazon-care-includes-mental-health-in-its-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/amazon-care-includes-mental-health-in-its-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Care includes mental health in its services"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h2><strong>Depression is an illness that can affect anyone, regardless of age, race, income, culture, or educational level.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><strong>Depression is the most common mental disorder in the world.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><strong>On a global level, Sweden ranks first among the countries with the highest percentage of the population with mental health problems.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Amazon Care announces alliance with the company Ginger, an expert in mental health care<\/strong> to begin offering the services as part of its broad portfolio of medical treatments for the beneficiaries of its services.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/es\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/mental-health-strengthening-our-response\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>According to the WHO,<\/strong><\/a>  mental health is a state of mental well-being that enables people to cope with life&#8217;s stressful moments. Mental health is more than the mere absence of mental disorders.<\/p>\n<p>Mental health conditions include mental disorders and psychosocial disabilities, as well as other mental states associated with a high degree of distress, functional disability or risk of self-injurious behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Mental health is also a fundamental human right and an essential element for personal, community and socioeconomic development.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What is AmazonCare?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Amazon Care is the health service that Amazon implemented on a trial basis for its employees in Seattle during 2019.<\/strong> Now Amazon Care is expanding to the rest of the United States and is starting to offer its services to other companies.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon Care provides medical services such as teleconsultation, face-to-face consultation, studies, filling of medical prescriptions, among others.  What stands out about this service is that you can do everything from the comfort of your home with health professionals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Amazon Care service is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.<\/strong> Currently only available in the United States<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What is ginger?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Ginger is a company that was founded in 2011 with the intention of building the first mental health technology platform<\/strong> of the world in the hands of scientists and businessmen from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT for its acronym in English).<\/p>\n<p>As Ginger grew older, the team realized the enormous potential to further improve mental health outcomes, moving from selling their knowledge to healthcare providers to becoming one.<\/p>\n<p>Ginger has behavioral health coaches, licensed therapists and psychiatrists.  Today the services of <strong>Ginger are present in more than 50 countries around the world.  Services are available 24 hours a day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Amazon Care promotes mental health<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amazon.care\/behavioral-health-with-amazon-care\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Amazon Care launched a message on the website where they are allied with Ginger<\/strong><\/a>  as a complement to their medical services for the benefit of the mental health of the workers who have their Care services.<\/p>\n<p>In order for covered workers to contact a Ginger team professional, they must be referred by Amazon for mental health treatment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depression is an illness that can affect anyone, regardless of age, race, income, culture, or educational level. Depression is the most common mental disorder in the world. On a global level, Sweden ranks first among the countries with the highest percentage of the population with mental health problems. 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