MENTAL HEALTH MANPOWER TRENDS

Trends in health manpower.

Trends in mental health care.

This Issue Brief was prepared for The Commonwealth Fund/John F. Kennedy School of Government Bipartisan Congressional Health Policy Conference, January 15-17, 2004.

Mental health research trends in Sri Lanka.

OBJECTIVE To review the number of research publications in the field of mental health in Sri Lanka from 1900 to 2009. METHODS A search of all publications in psychiatry and mental health from Sri Lanka was conducted using Pubmed, all medical journals published in Sri Lanka and researchers. The identified papers were reviewed for their content and categorised as research in psychiatry and ment...

Emerging Trends In Mental Health Policy

The continuing deinstitutionalization of patients in public mental hospitals and the growth of managed care are fundamentally altering mental health practice. Managed care provides opportunities for achieving parity of insurance coverage between mental and physical illness, but serious problems persist in integrating mental health, substance abuse, and general medical care and assuring an appro...

Modern Trends in Mental Health and Subnormality

longer the cure of diseases, the doctor has to make a contribution, along with other professional workers, to the detailed and complex provisions for the development of the innate, or residual, capacities. It is this change which has led to the rapidly increasing medical interest in the growth, education and social training of the mentally handicapped. The main emphasis of this book is on the t...