Better but not well : mental health policy in the United States since 1950 /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Frank, Richard G.
Other Authors: Glied, Sherry
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Mental health policy > United States > History.
Mental health services > United States > History.
Mental Health Services > trends
Health Policy > trends
Mental Health Services > statistics & numerical data
Santé mentale > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis > Histoire.
Services de santé mentale > États-Unis > Histoire.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Health.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
MEDICAL > Mental Health.
Mental health policy
Mental health services
Gesundheitspolitik
Psychiatrische Versorgung
United States
USA
Statistics
History
Statistics.
Statistiques.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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