Mental health policy in America: myths and realities.
نویسنده
چکیده
منابع مشابه
The economics of tobacco: myths and realities.
Introduction Each side in the debate about tobacco control—the tobacco industry and the public health community—wields a seemingly powerful set of economic arguments, the industry claiming that economic considerations urge a “go slow” approach to tobacco control, the public health community insisting they recommend an aggressive stance. Each of the most prominent arguments presented by both sid...
متن کاملGovernance: Blending Bureaucratic Rules with Day to Day Operational Realities; Comment on “Governance, Government, and the Search for New Provider Models”
Richard Saltman and Antonio Duran take up the challenging issue of governance in their article “Governance, Government and the Search for New Provider Models,” and use two case studies of health policy changes in Sweden and Spain to shed light on the subject. In this commentary, I seek to link their conceptualization of governance, especially its interrelated roles at the macro, meso, and micro...
متن کاملHigher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Strategy Paper
2 This paper, prepared under the responsibility of SDS/SOC, was written by Claudio de Moura Castro and Daniel C. Levy, with the assistance of Andrés Bernasconi. In order to keep the present paper reasonably brief, the bulk of the evidence, citations, examples and data to substantiate the arguments, as well as the qualifications to those arguments, can be found in the background paper Higher Edu...
متن کاملManaged care mythology: supply-side dreams die hard.
As managed care gains increasing influence over the American health financing system, economic pressures and emerging market realities have created a fertile climate for wishful thinking on the part of hospital executives and physicians. Rather than accept the inevitability of reducing excess capacity and incomes, providers cling to self-serving myths about managed care's strategic direction. H...
متن کاملMental health policy development in Africa.
Mental health issues are usually given very low priority in health service policies. Although this is changing, African countries are still confronted with so many problems caused by communicable diseases and malnutrition that they have not waken up to the impact of mental disorders. Every country must formulate a mental health policy based on its own social and cultural realities. Such policie...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید
ثبت ناماگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید
ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Health affairs
دوره 11 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1992