Caring for Depression

Informationen zum Autor Kenneth Wells is Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and School of Medicine, and a senior scientist at RAND. Roland Sturm is an economist at RAND. Cathy D. Sherbourne is a medical sociologist at RAND. Lisa S. Meredith is a social psychologist at RAND. Klappentext nation will gain greater health improvements per dollar invested and a more productive population. Zusammenfassung The ongoing shift of mental-health care away from specialists and toward primary medical-care providers is causing fewer depressed patients to be appropriately diagnosed and treated. The authors urge the integration of both medical and economic considerations in designing policies for the treatment of depression.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa S. Meredith, Cathy D. Sherbourne, Roland Sturm, Kenneth B. Wells, Kenneth B. Etc. Sturm Wells, Kenneth B. Sturm Wells
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.1999
• EAN: 9780674097308
• ISBN: 978-0-674-09730-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Rand Study S
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology