In the last half-century, there have been major changes in the treatment of mental illness: physicians are more responsive, hospitals and treatment centers are more humane, and insurance companies are beginning to help lift the financial burden that mental illness causes. These changes, however, are not enough for the 20 percent of the general population who have mental illness. The U.S. Surgeon General reported in 1999 on the rich array of effective treatments for mental illness, but also pointed out that many people never receive these treatments and that the quality of treatment is highly uneven. Frank and Glied explore the changes occurring over the last fifty years in the lives of people with mental illness and assess the factors that generated these changes. State the authors, "Stressing only the deficiencies of the present -- without an understanding of how these relate to the past -- can lead to a replay of prior unproductive efforts to improve the situation.
We believe that by carefully analyzing the forces that have guided the past transformation of mental health care, America will be better equipped to steer public policy in a direction that results in further gains for a most disadvantaged segment of Americans." This book will appeal to professionals and students in mental health care and health policy.
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Offers many insights beneficial to the informed reader. -- David Mechanic New England Journal of Medicine 2006 The authors are true to their word in providing an excellent overview of changes in the last 50 years. They provide compelling evidence that the condition of many, if not most, persons with mental illness has improved during that period. JAMA 2007 Will be of greatest interest to students of mental health economics, services, and policy, but clinicians interested in the relationship between health policy and everyday practice will also find it useful. -- Burton V. Reifler International Psychogeriatrics 2007 Provides a necessary counterpart to much overenthusiastic optimism surrounding recent development in psychopharmacology and the neurosciences. -- Bonnie Evans Journal of Mental Health 2008 Offers a fascinating... historical analysis of mental health policy. -- Ellen Dwyer History of Psychiatry 2008 Should be assigned to every practitioner, mental health clinician, administrator, and advocate - as well as every legislator and policy maker - concerned with the status of Americans with serious mental illness. -- William Fisher Psychiatric Services 2007 If one... has time to read one book on mental health policy this year, this should be the one. -- Roger Meyer Health Affairs 2007 A comprehensive assessment of changes in the life conditions and well-being of persons with serious mental illnesses over the past five decades. -- Janet R. Nelson Clergy Journal 2008 A well-written and important work that provides a definitive look at the past and a glimpse into the future of mental health policy in America. -- Kathleen Brown RN, MSN, PhD Nursing History Review 2009
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Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Illustrationen
13 s/w Abbildungen
13 Illustrations, black and white
Maße
Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 157 mm
Dicke: 17 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-8018-8442-9 (9780801884429)
DOI
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Richard G. Frank is the Morris Professor of Health Economics at Harvard University Medical School and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Sherry A. Glied is a professor in and chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.
Autor*in
Margaret T. Morris Professor of Health EconomicsHarvard Medical School
Dean, Professor of Public ServiceNYU
Foreword
Preface
1. Introduction
2. The Population with Mental Illness
3. The Evolving Technology of Mental Health Care
4. Health Care Financing and Income Support
5. The Supply of Mental Health Services
6. Policy Making in Mental Health: Integration, Mainstreaming, and Shifting Institutions
7. Assessing the Well-being of People with Mental Illness
8. Looking Forward: Improving the Well-being of People with Mental Illness
Notes
References
Index
