Findings and Policy Implications from The Commonwealth Fund Minority Health Survey
This book assembles timely evidence from a major national survey regarding the different experiences of health care as it is being delivered to various minority members of our society--Hispanics, African Americans, Asian Americans, and minority women. It provides the documentation needed to assess the successes and failures of our present system ......
This is a review of the laws in the state of California as they relate to the mental health profession. Issues include: setting up a private practice; working with health care provider organizations; and understanding the duty to report abuse and neglect of children and adults.
This is a review of the laws in the state of New York as they relate to the mental health profession. Issues include: setting up a private practice; working with health care provider organizations; and understanding the duty to report abuse and neglect of children and adults.
This is a review of the laws in the state of Minnesota as they relate to the mental health profession. Issues include: setting up a private practice; working with health care provider organizations; and understanding the duty to report abuse and neglect of children and adults.
This is a review of the laws in the state of Washington as they relate to the mental health profession. Issues include: setting up a private practice; working with health care provider organizations; and understanding the duty to report abuse and neglect of children and adults.
A survey of modern approaches to the prevention of eating disorders which argues that models of prevention as opposed to treatment are conceptually flawed. The book addresses general approaches and dilemmas, and then provides examples of concrete strategies and projects aimed at prevention.
A survey of modern approaches to the prevention of eating disorders which argues that models of prevention as opposed to treatment are conceptually flawed. The book addresses general approaches and dilemmas, and then provides examples of concrete strategies and projects aimed at prevention.
Those who strongly believe in precognition point to Morgan Robertson's sea novel "The Wreck of the Titan", published fourteen years before the Titanic went down, as proof of the power of extrasensory perception. This title reproduces the book, along with a selection of other writings that seem to foretell the Titanic's fate.
The fact that women experience the health care system differently than men is as issue of increasing importance to health professionals as well as the general public. Yet, while women's health problems have received unprecedented attention in recent years, the unique relationship between women and health care institutions remains little ......
These 17 contributions take a multidisciplinary approach to the mad cow crisis, discussing its history and ramifications, and offering suggestions for predicting, avoiding, and managing similar crises. An analysis of media coverage, and a chronology of bovine spongiform encephalopathy and Creutzfel
These 17 contributions take a multidisciplinary approach to the mad cow crisis, discussing its history and ramifications, and offering suggestions for predicting, avoiding, and managing similar crises. An analysis of media coverage, and a chronology of bovine spongiform encephalopathy and Creutzfel
Alternatives to the Hospital for Acute Psychiatric Care describes various cost-effective alternatives to psychiatric hospital care and provides specific details for mental health administrators to evaluate the usefulness and feasibility of the various models for their own mental health care setting.
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 ......