How do health insurance regulations affect the care of persons with mental illness? And how do such persons, in turn, affect the economy through lost productivity, reduced labor supply, and deviant behavior at the workplace? In "Economics and Mental Health," Richard G. Frank and Willard G. Manning, Jr., bring together a distinguished group of health care economists to explore the new and rapidly growing field of mental health economics.
The authors begin by discussing the issue of care for severely mentally ill patients as it is influenced by differing modes of reimbursement. They then...
How do health insurance regulations affect the care of persons with mental illness? And how do such persons, in turn, affect the economy through lost ...
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...
The past half-century has been marked by major changes in the treatment of mental illness: important advances in understanding mental illnesses, in...
