| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 183 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The population with mental illness -- The evolving technology of mental health care -- Health care financing and income support -- The supply of mental health services -- Policy making in mental health : integration, mainstreaming, and shifting institutions -- Assessing the well-being of people with mental illness -- Looking forward : improving the well-being of people with mental illness |
| Summary |
This book examines the well-being of people with mental illness in the United States over the past fifty years, addressing issues such as economics, treatment, standards of living, rights, and stigma. Marshaling a range of new empirical evidence, they first argue that people with mental illness--severe and persistent disorders as well as less serious mental health conditions--are faring better today than in the past. Improvements have come about for unheralded and unexpected reasons. Rather than being a result of more effective mental health treatments, progress has come from the growth of private health insurance and of mainstream social programs--such as Medicaid, Supplemental Security Income, housing vouchers, and food stamps--and the development of new treatments that are easier for patients to tolerate and for physicians to manage |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-176) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mental health policy -- United States -- History
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Mental health services -- United States -- History
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Mental Health Services -- trends
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Health Policy -- trends
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Mental Health Services -- statistics & numerical data
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness.
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MEDICAL -- Mental Health.
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Mental health policy
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Mental health services
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Gesundheitspolitik
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Psychiatrische Versorgung
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| SUBJECT |
United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| Subject |
United States
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
Statistics
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History
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Statistics.
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Statistiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Glied, Sherry
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| LC no. |
2006001810 |
| ISBN |
9780801889103 |
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0801889103 |
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9780801884429 |
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080188442X |
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9780801884436 |
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0801884438 |
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