{"product_id":"what-price-mental-health-9780878403592","title":"What Price Mental Health","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRegardless of the fate of national health care reform, public policy makers will have to make difficult and tragic choices about which health services are more or less important. This volume, the first comprehensive examination of setting mental health services priorities, systematically explores the history, ethics, and politics of setting priorities for public mental health services. Because mental health services have traditionally been given lower priority and less generous benefits than general health services, they form a striking case study for priority setting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by mental health care practitioners and scholars, \u003ci\u003eWhat Price Mental Health? \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the social factors that most influence attempts to set priorities; offers case studies at the state level; illustrates priorities at the federal level and in the private sector; and identifies the ethical criteria that must be applied in any attempt to set priorities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume is conceptionally rich for t\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. Influences in Priority Setting   1. Minds and Hearts: Priorities in Mental Health ServicesPhilip J. Boyle and Daniel Callahan  2. Government and Mental Health Policy: A Structural AnalysisGerald Grob  3. Establishing Mental Health PrioritiesDavid Mechanic  4. Who Will Set Priorities for Mental Health?Leslie Scallet and James Havel  5. Law and Priority SettingLen Rubenstein  6. Private Insurance Priorities: Its Effect on Mental Health PrioritiesMiriam Cotler and Brian Gould  II. Priority Setting Case Studies   7. Prioritization of Mental Health Services in OregonDavid Pollack, Bentson McFarland, Robert George, Richard Angell  8. Mental Health Coverage in Health Care Reform: The Case of New York StateRichard Surles and Cynthia Feiden-Warsh  III. Ethical Issues in Setting Priorities   9. Setting Mental Health Priorities: Problems and PossibilitiesDaniel Callahan  10. Priority Setting in Mental Health?Robert Michels  11. Tragedy, Prejudice, and Publicity in Setting PrioritiesJames Nelson  12. What Level of Government? Balancing the Interests of the State and Local CommunityHoward Goldman, Richard Frank, Martin Gaynor  13. Some Unresolved Ethical Issues in Priority Setting of Mental Health ServicesDan Brock\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Georgetown University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039028347223,"sku":"9780878403592","price":43.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780878403592.jpg?v=1750942329","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/what-price-mental-health-9780878403592","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}