Better But Not Well - Mental Health Policy in the United States Since 1950

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Frank and Glied explore the changes in the treatment, living standards, rights and stigma of people with mental illness over the past fifty years and assess the factors that generated these changes. They argue that 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. They contend 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. Zusammenfassung To fill this void! Frank and Glied suggest that institutional resources be applied systematically and routinely to examine and address how federal and state programs affect the well-being of people with mental illness.

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• Authors: Richard G Frank, Richard G. Frank, Richard G. (Margaret T. Morris Professor of Frank, Richard G. Glied Frank, Richard G./ Glied Frank, Sherry Glied, Sherry A Glied, Sherry A. Glied
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.11.2006
• EAN: 9780801884436
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8443-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system