Better But Not Well: Mental Health Policy in the United States since 1950 Pdf

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Edition: 1
Release: 2006-08-02
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0801884438
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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The past half-century has been marked by major changes in the treatment of mental illness: important advances in understanding mental illnesses, increases in spending on mental health care and support of people with mental illnesses, and the availability of new medications that are easier for the patient to tolerate. Although these changes have made things better for those who have mental illness, they are not quite enough. In Better But Not Well, Richard G. Frank and Sherry A. Glied examine 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 Download Better But Not Well for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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