Health maintenance organizations and psychiatric care.
Prepaid psychiatric practice offers a number of cost-effective approaches to treating approximately 90% of the world's population. After reviewing the goal of prepaid psychiatry--to provide high quality medical care to a defined population at an affordable price--the author presents an overview of the fundamental components of this type of service delivery.
D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000592:standards*; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States