Collaboration among state and local mental health organizations: examples of knowledge utilization.
The 1989 Spring issue of the JMHA focuses on knowledge utilization strategies leading to successful collaborations among state and local mental health organizations. Prepared by state (or large county) directors/commissioners, five articles in this issue reveal how organizational design, incentives, performance contracting, organizational control strategies, decentralization, and consensus building contribute to improvements in local mental health services.
D003142:Communication; D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007255:Information Services; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011635:Public Health Administration; D013219:State Government; D014481:United States