Can mental illness be prevented under managed care?
Ideally, managed care should force a focus on all the issues involved in prevention and treatment. Unfortunately, the decisions in managed care are based on costs, along with the intervention techniques, as the most important criteria in choice of treatment. Medical treatment accounts for only 10 percent of health. To find a solution means working together, making the goal "healthy people in a healthy community." Programs such as the Healthy Cities initiative, not managed care, are more likely to realize this goal.
Duhl
L J
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University of California, Berkeley.
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