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...

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1. Verfasser: Frank, Richard G.
Weitere Verfasser: Glied, Sherry
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xv, 183 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-176) and index.
ISBN:9780801889103
0801889103
9780801884429
080188442X
9780801884436
0801884438

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