Public Health and Mental Health: A Model for Success

From: Perspectives in Psychiatric Care | Date: October 1, 2007| Author: Gaul, Colleen E; Farkas, Cynthia | Copyright information

The need for mental health intervention is increasing. Services are decreasing due to economic trends, state budget cuts, and limited access to mental health providers in the community. Emergency departments are swamped with people with mental health problems with nowhere to go; and the failure to treat those with serious mental health problems has resulted in incalculable cost, in terms of real dollars and human suffering, to the community and individuals (Gruskin & Dickens, 2006, p. 190...

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