Cargando…
Better but not well : mental health policy in the United States since 1950 /
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--sev...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Otros Autores: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2006.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
|---|---|
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 183 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-176) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780801889103 0801889103 9780801884429 080188442X 9780801884436 0801884438 |