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Manage Or Perish? The Challenges Of Managed Mental Health Care In Europe
by Norman Sartorius
Available from Powells Used Books
$442.75
on 12-26-2008
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ISBN Number: 9780306462108
Editor: Guimon, Jose
Written by: Guimon, Jose
Written by: Sartorius, Norman
Published by: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Location: New York
Subject: Administration
Subject: Mental health
Subject: Psychology & Psychiatry Profession
Subject: Mental health services
Subject: Managed Care Programs
Subject: Psychology & Psychiatry Profession, General
Edition Description: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Date of Publication: February 2000
Cover Type: Hardcover
Written in: English
Number of Pages: 640
Book Size: 10.12x6.74x1.72 in. 3.04 lbs.
The greater emphasis on quality of life and heightened public expectations about health care have resulted in increased demands for services. Expensive improvements in diagnosis and treatment have led governments, desperate to limit their expenditure, to propose the rationalization of health care. An intermediate solution - managed care - emerged in the US and soon after elsewhere. This book, which examines the practical and ethical implications of managed care and its effect on the patient-doctor relationship, analyses the after-effects of the US-born managed care revolution, and addresses the question of a European perspective: What is the European reality? How can psychiatrists adapt to the new cost-containment strategies which imperil patients' most basic needs while avoiding the ethical quagmires that would compromise their own principles?
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