Patients Benefit from Interventions to Change Their Behaviors
August 1, 2002 | Program Result
The Center for the Advancement of Health conducted a study of the availability and integration of health behavior change programs in managed care.
Behavioral/Mental Health Care
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Build a Web Site that Listens to Their Feelings, and Teenagers will Come
October 1, 2002 | Program Result
KidsPeace Corporation, a nonprofit organization that operates programs to assist children in crisis, designed an interactive Web site to help youth who are experiencing or at risk of developing emotional problems.
Defining a "Gold Standard" for Measuring the Effectiveness of Behavioral Therapy
October 1, 2002 | Program Result
A partnership between the American College of Mental Health Administration and five major U.S. accrediting organizations produced a consensus set of indicators for behavioral health services.
Cost Savings Alone Won't Lead to Coverage of Diet and Exercise Interventions
December 1, 2002 | Program Result
The Center for the Advancement of Health, Washington, convened a panel of experts in Princeton, N.J., to assess how economic analysis can play a role in promoting behavioral interventions to improve health.
AMA Surveys Adults on Health Habits But Drops Plan for Health Index
April 1, 2001 | Program Result
The American Medical Association and its subcontractor, the Gallup Organization, designed, implemented and disseminated two national telephone surveys on the public's health habits, one of young adults and the other of adults conducted by Gallup.
Disharmony of Inpatient and Outpatient Services Hampers Treatment of Schizophrenics
August 1, 2001 | Program Result
From 1991 to 1998, researchers from the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, studied the care of schizophrenia patients who are covered by Medicaid in New York State.
Indiana's 'Dawn Project' Improves Youth Mental Health Services and Saves Money
June 1, 2000 | Program Result
The State of Indiana Office of the Secretary of Family & Social Services, Indianapolis, developed a state-level consortium of agencies to pool mental health treatment dollars to serve seriously emotionally disturbed children and adolescents.
Lone Star State Doesn't Go it Alone in Providing Youth Mental Health Services
June 1, 2000 | Program Result
Between March 1996 and December 1997 the State of Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, set up the Texas Integrated Funding Initiative to develop local organized service-delivery systems for children with multiple needs that are family based, accountable for outcomes, and that maximize all funding sources.
Wraparound Program Saves Illinois Money and Provides Better Mental Health Services for Youth
June 1, 2000 | Program Result
Between January 1996 and June 1997, the State of Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, Springfield, Ill. carried out a project to support the development of a managed care system of services for foster care children-all of whom are wards of the state-who needed behavioral health services.
Those Most in Need Often Don't Respond to Treatment for Depression
October 1, 2000 | Program Result
During 1998 and 1999, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound held a conference on improving care for depression in organized health care systems.