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From The Editor

Quality & Parity In The Mental Health Market John K. Iglehart [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Journal Article

Mission unfulfilled: potholes on the road to mental health parity D Mechanic and D D McAlpine [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Equity in managed care for mental disorders M A Burnam and J J Escarce [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Advances in understanding and treating mental illness: implications for policy G Norquist and S E Hyman [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: Strangers In The Night: Research And Managed Mental Health Care Saul Feldman [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Quality of care in mental health: the case of schizophrenia A F Lehman [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: Managed Care And Clinical Reality In Schizophrenia Treatment Steven S. Sharfstein, John J. Boronow, and Faith B. Dickerson [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The value of mental health care at the system level: the case of treating depression R G Frank, T G McGuire, S L Normand, and H H Goldman [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Evidence-based care for depression in managed primary care practices L V Rubenstein, M Jackson-Triche, J Unutzer, J Miranda, K Minnium, M L Pearson, and K B Wells [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: Public-Sector Mental Health Care: New Challenges Michael F. Hogan [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: Competing Interests: Public-Sector Managed Behavioral Health Care Michael H. Bailit and Laurie L. Burgess [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

Managed behavioral health care in 1999: an industry at a crossroads S Findlay [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Consumer-choice markets: lessons from FEHBP mental health coverage S M Foote and S B Jones [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Employment-based health insurance for children: why did coverage increase in the mid-1990s? P Fronstin [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Who gets second opinions? T H Wagner and L S Wagner [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Nonprofit hospital conversions and community benefits: new evidence from three states G J Young and K R Desai [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

Pills, policies, and patients J B Sardis [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Depression in the workplace: effects on short-term disability R C Kessler, C Barber, H G Birnbaum, R G Frank, P E Greenberg, R M Rose, G E Simon, and P Wang [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

More evidence for the insurability of managed behavioral health care W Goldman, J McCulloch, B Cuffel, and D Kozma [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

State mental health parity laws: cause or consequence of differences in use? R Sturm and R L Pacula [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Effect of declining mental health service use on employees of a large corporation R A Rosenheck, B Druss, M Stolar, D Leslie, and W Sledge [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Risk sharing in managed behavioral health care M B Rosenthal [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Managed behavioral health care: a Medicaid carve-out for youth B J Burns, S E Teagle, M Schwartz, A Angold, and A Holtzman [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Characteristics of health plans that treat psychiatric patients D A Zarin, J C West, H A Pincus, and T L Tanielian [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

Rural integrated systems in California: preparing for managed care S Weisgrau, L Buada, M Campbell, and I Moscovice [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Grants And Grant Outcomes [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

UpDate

Does the Americans with Disabilities Act accommodate depressed workers? T W Croghan, T J Kniesner, and R H Powers [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Bolstering the safety net L S Gage and M Regenstein [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Publications & Reports [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Book Reviews

'Clozaril Without Side Effects' Is Not Enough David A. Rochefort [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Color Of Health Christopher H. Foreman, Jr. [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Muddled Care, Managed Care G. Gordon Bonnyman, Jr. [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Measuring The Measurers J.D. Kleinke [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Medicaid Rate Study: An Excellent Beginning Judith D. Moore [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

State Medicaid Rate Variations: Thanks For The Comparative Data Mark E. Reynolds [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Medicaid-Only Plans Can Serve Members Well Jeffrey McWaters [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

More On The Shalala-Reinhardt Interview Robert H. Potts Jr. [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Need To Broaden The Scope Of Defining 'Health' Douglas H. Dornan [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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