(3 reviews) Author: Visit Amazon's Richard G. Frank Page ISBN : 9780801884429 New from $38.96 Format: PDFReview
Offers many insights beneficial to the informed reader.
(David Mechanic New England Journal of Medicine 2006-01-00)The authors are true to their word in providing an excellent overview of changes in the last 50 years. They provide compelling evidence that the condition of many, if not most, persons with mental illness has improved during that period.
(JAMA 2007-01-00)By pulling information from a wide variety of sources, these authors provide a fresh and optimistic look on improvements in the well-being of people with mental illness. A major contribution to the field.
(Steven Sharfstein, President and CEO of the Sheppard Pratt Health System)An important and provocative addition to the literature dealing with health policy.
(Gerald N. Grob, Ph.D., Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University, author of The Deadly Truth)Professors Frank and Glied offer a broad-based and candid assessment of the evolution of mental health care in the United States and of how the well-being of people touched by mental health problems changed during the last half of the twentieth century.
(Rosalynn Carter, from the Foreword)Will be of greatest interest to students of mental health economics, services, and policy, but clinicians interested in the relationship between health policy and everyday practice will also find it useful.
(Burton V. Reifler International Psychogeriatrics 2007-01-00)Provides a necessary counterpart to much overenthusiastic optimism surrounding recent development in psychopharmacology and the neurosciences.
(Bonnie Evans Journal of Mental Health 2008-01-00)Offers a fascinating... historical analysis of mental health policy.
(Ellen Dwyer History of Psychiatry 2008-01-00)Should be assigned to every practitioner, mental health clinician, administrator, and advocate — as well as every legislator and policy maker—concerned with the status of Americans with serious mental illness.
(William Fisher Psychiatric Services 2007-01-00)If one... has time to read one book on mental health policy this year, this should be the one.
(Roger Meyer Health Affairs 2007-01-00)A comprehensive assessment of changes in the life conditions and well-being of persons with serious mental illnesses over the past five decades.
(Janet R. Nelson Clergy Journal 2008-01-00)A well-written and important work that provides a definitive look at the past and a glimpse into the future of mental health policy in America.
(Kathleen Brown RN, MSN, PhD Nursing History Review 2009-01-00)About the Author
Richard G. Frank is the Morris Professor of Health Economics at Harvard University Medical School and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Sherry A. Glied is a professor in and chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.
- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; 1 edition (August 2, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 080188442X
- ISBN-13: 978-0801884429
- Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 6.3 x 8.9 inches
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