Legislation of evidence-based treatments in public mental health: analysis of benefits and costs.
The 2003 Texas 78th Legislature passed a bill that implemented several strategies to help realize a $1 billion decrease to health and human services spending (Senate Research Committee, 2003). A component of House Bill (HB) 2292 aimed at cost savings was the requirement for implementation of a resiliency and disease management model of service delivery in public mental health. As operationalized by the newly formed Department of State Health Services, the result was the legislation of evidence-based practice in community mental health in Texas. The purpose of this paper is to examine and analyze the policy change requiring a resiliency and disease management model for children's public mental health in response to HB 2292.
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School of Sociology and Social Work, Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas, USA. kpainter@twu.edu
D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare / Q000523:psychology*; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D019468:Disease Management; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health; D013781:Texas