Cuts in Mental Health Budgets

Debating personal health budgets

Personal health budgets (PHBs) were piloted in the National Health Service (NHS) in England between 2009 and 2012 and were found to have greater positive effects on quality of life and psychological well-being for those with mental health problems than commissioned service, as well as reducing their use of unplanned care. The government intends to extend PHBs in England for long-term conditions...

Starvation diet: coping with shrinking budgets in publicly funded mental health services.

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Markets, budgets, and health care cost control.

Health care cost control is often debated in terms of markets versus bureaucracies. Market restraints are limited in practice by the goal of providing access to care. Therefore, effective cost control requires budgeting. Experience from budgeting for other services should put health care cost control in perspective: The goal should not be rational and efficient allocations, merely better ones. ...

A child psychiatric view on relations between classroom climate, school budget cuts and children’s mental health

Perinatal Mental Health: A Public Health Concern

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