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Health and Mental Health Care Policy : A Biopsychosocial Perspective
by Moniz, Cynthia; Gorin, StephenEdition:
2nd
ISBN13:
9780205509379
ISBN10:
0205509371
Format:
Paperback
Pub. Date:
1/1/2007
Publisher(s):
Allyn & Bacon
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Summary
This text fills a void in social work literature by offering a comprehensive, in-depth overview of health and mental health policy. Health and Mental Health Care Policy provides an overview of the development of health policy in the United States, with a particular focus on the failure to achieve universal coverage. It also discusses the role of private and public insurance and examines the uninsured populations. Finally, the book examines managed care in health and mental health and its impact on social work. Practitioners and policy advocates in the public health, mental health and health policy arena, social workers and health care providers.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| Models of Health and Health Policy | |
| Determinants of Health: A Biopsychosocial Perspective | |
| Biological Factors | |
| Psychological Factors | |
| Social Factors | |
| Biopsychosocial Dynamics | |
| A Biopsychosocial Approach to Health | |
| Approaches to Health Policy | |
| Disease and Health Care | |
| Escalating Costs | |
| A New Concept of Health | |
| A New Framework for Health Policy | |
| The Costs and Benefits of Health Policy | |
| International Policy Efforts | |
| Implications for Health and Health Care Policy in the United States | |
| Highlights | |
| References | |
| National Health and Mental Health Policy in the United States | |
| The Failure to Enact National Health Insurance: 1865-1946 | |
| Early Efforts to Reform National Health and Mental Health Care: 1865-1912 | |
| The Beginnings of Social Work and Public Health | |
| The Need for Public Health Services | |
| The Mental Hygiene Movement | |
| Compulsory Health Insurance Efforts: 1912-1920 | |
| American Association for Labor Legislation | |
| Establishment of the U.S. Public Health Service | |
| Federal-State Reforms and Private Insurance: 1920-1932 | |
| Sheppard-Towner Infancy and Maternity Bill | |
| The Creation of Blue Cross and Blue Shield and the Veterans Administration | |
| The Decline of Public Health | |
| The New Deal Reforms: 1932-1940 | |
| Maternal and Child Health Services | |
| The Failure to Enact Compulsory Insurance | |
| Federal Health and Mental Health Policy and Services: 1941-1946 | |
| Emergency Maternal and Infant Care Program | |
| Public Health Services Act | |
| National Mental Health Act | |
| Hill-Burton Hospital Survey and Construction Act | |
| Highlights | |
| References | |
| The Emergence of Employment-Based Insurance and Managed Care: 1943-Present | |
| Political Opposition to National Health Insurance: 1943-1950 | |
| The Defeat of National Health Care Legislation: 1943-1949 | |
| The Enactment of Medicare: 1950-1965 | |
| Health Care Inflation and Strategies for Reform: 1970-1988 | |
| Renewed Struggle for National Health Insurance | |
| The Rise of HMOs | |
| Regulatory Reform | |
| Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs) | |
| The Creation and Role of Community Mental Health Centers: 1963-1992 | |
| Mental Retardation and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act | |
| Medicaidrsquo;s Role in Deinstitutionalization | |
| Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services | |
| Consumer Protection Efforts: Patientsrsquo; Rights | |
| Community Support Program | |
| The Decline of Community Mental Health: 1980-1992 | |
| State Comprehensive Mental Health Services Plan Act | |
| Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act | |
| The Rise and Fall of the Health Security Act: 1988-1996 | |
| Proposals for a Single-Payer Plan | |
| Clintonrsquo;s Proposal: The Healt | |
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