Health Affairs, 28, no. 3 (2009): 760
doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.3.760
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The delivery of mental health care services in the United States reflects the current fragmentation apparent throughout all of health care, with different responsibilities for federal, state, and local governments. The following three papers focus on the federal role—the need for more integrated care and more research to determine the most effective interventions.

Robert Drake and colleagues look at the growing role that Social Security disability programs—both Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income—play in supporting America’s mentally ill. Although many of these beneficiaries want to, and could, work, features of these programs actually limit their ability to gain . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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