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Health Policy
September 17, 2012 | Feature/Topic
Browse research, insight and analysis on key issues affecting health and health care in the United States.
The Manufacture of Recovery
March 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Paradigms shaping mental health policy have changed over the years; recovery is the most recent dominant paradigm.
A Survey of Stakeholder Knowledge, Experience, and Opinions of Advance Directives for Mental Health in Virginia
January 13, 2012 | Journal Article
An innovative Virginia health care law enables competent adults with serious mental illness to plan for treatment during incapacitating crises using an integrated advance directive with no legal distinction between psychiatric or other causes of decisional incapacity.
Are Patients with Serious Mental lllness More Likely to be Admitted to Nursing Homes with More Deficiencies in Care?
April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
A study to determine whether patients with serious mental illness (SMI) are admitted to nursing homes with acceptable quality of care as often as other patients found that patients with SMI were more likely to be admitted to nursing homes with more total and health care-related deficiency citations.
Mental Disorders and Medical Comorbidity
February 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
The expansion of health insurance under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has the potential to benefit persons with comorbid mental and medical disorders. This synthesis examines the evidence on physical and mental comorbidity including its prevalence, origins and models for effective treatment.
Social Security and Mental Illness
May 1, 2009 | Journal Article
In this paper, the authors address the issues relating to the largest group of Social Security beneficiaries: people with psychiatric disabilities.
Provider Recognition of Psychosocial Problems in Low-Income Latino Children
May 1, 2006 | Journal Article
In 2001–2002, 269 low-socioeconomic status (SES) Latino children aged 2–16 who were seen by primary care providers (PCPs) at a well-child care center were screened for a variety of psychosocial disorders, in order to determine how effective PCPs wer ...
Public Conceptions of Serious Mental Illness and Substance Abuse, Their Causes and Treatments
October 1, 2006 | Journal Article
This study examines the degree to which lay beliefs about the causes of disorders may predict beliefs about what constitutes appropriate treatment. The authors analyzed randomized vignette data from the MacArthur Mental Health Module of the 1996 Gen ...
Capturing Intervention Effects Over Time
October 1, 2005 | Journal Article
We analyzed whether a method for identifying latent trajectories—latent class growth analysis (LCGA)—was useful for understanding outcomes for individuals subject to an intervention. We used LCGA to reanalyze data from a published study of mentally ...
Mental Illness Hospitalizations of Youth in Washington State
August 1, 0200 | Journal Article
Overall hospitalization rates for youth decreased during the past two decades as a result, in part, of a shift from inpatient to outpatient management of many conditions.
Extra! Newspaper for Teens Increases Coverage of Youth Health Topics, Expands Circulation
February 28, 2003 | Program Results Report
In 1998, the American Youth Work Center began providing regular coverage of youth health issues in their newspaper, Youth Today, and expanded circulation and paid subscriptions to the paper.