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Better But Not Well
Richard G. Frank
其他書名
Mental Health Policy in the United States Since 1950
出版JHU Press, 2006
ISBN080188442X9780801884429
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=F8Tyxejt-yYC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.