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by Richard G. Frank and Sherry A. Glied, 183 pp, with illus, paper, $21.95, ISBN-13 978-0-8018-8443-6, ISBN-10 0-8018-8443-8, Baltimore, Md, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

JAMA. 2007;297:415.

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This book is the outgrowth of the authors' desire to develop "an empirical scorecard that assessed how the well-being of people with mental illness has changed since the . . . late 1950s and 1960s and what forces have caused the evolution of care." To this end they have collected and analyzed data that address changes in a wide range of areas: (1) the technology of treatment, (2) the financing of mental health services, (3) the supply of mental health services, and (4) the condition of the mentally ill with respect to quality of care, financial burden, and living conditions. Although specialists in each of these areas might have criticisms of the authors' assumptions or conclusions, those interested in mental health policy must be thankful that they have been willing to take on such an ambitious enterprise.

Drawing on a quotation from the late Gerald Klerman (the director of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Daniel Luchins, MD, Reviewer
University of Chicago
Chicago, Ill
danl@yoda.bsd.uchicago.edu

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