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Health Affairs, 22, no. 5 (2003): 177-188 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.22.5.177 © 2003 by Project HOPE	New Online   Reinhardt: Post-Summit   Report from the Summit   President's Reform Proposal   Rising Medicare Costs   Spending for Immigrants   $2.5 Trillion U.S. Health Tab   Child Obesity Briefing

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The Occupational Transformation Of The Mental Health System

Richard M. Scheffler and Paul B. Kirby

View larger version (24K): [in a new window]   EXHIBIT 1 Mental Health Workforce, By Discipline, Selected Years 1981–1999 SOURCES: Bureau of Health Professions, Area Resource File; and R.W. Manderscheid and M.J. Henderson, eds., Mental Health, United States, 2000 (Rockville, Md.: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2000), chap. 20. NOTE: Missing data are due to irregular data collection for all three series.

View larger version (14K): [in a new window]   EXHIBIT 3 Percentage Increase In Mean Physician Income, By Specialty, 1982–1998 SOURCE: American Medical Association, Physician Socioeconomic Statistics, 1999 and 2000–2002 editions.

View larger version (19K): [in a new window]   EXHIBIT 4 Percentage Of Psychiatrists And All Physicians Having Any Managed Care Contracts, Selected Years 1985–1995 SOURCE: American Medical Association, Socioeconomic Monitoring System Survey, various years.

View larger version (16K): [in a new window]   EXHIBIT 5 Mean Percentage Of Revenue From Managed Care Contracts, Psychiatrists And All Physicians, Selected Years 1987–1998 SOURCE: American Medical Association, Socioeconomic Monitoring System Survey, various years.

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