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Seeking Value - Balancing Cost and Quality in Psychiatric Care (Paperback)
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Seeking Value - Balancing Cost and Quality in Psychiatric Care (Paperback)
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Health indicators in the United States are among the worst in the
developed world, even though its health care system is, by a wide
margin, the most expensive in the world. It is a disparity that
stems from a fragmentation of services and financial arrangements
that often prioritize commercial interests over public health.
Seeking Value: Balancing Cost and Quality in Psychiatric Care, a
comprehensive volume by the Group for the Advancement of
Psychiatry's Mental Health Services Committee, examines the myriad
factors that have led to the current state of health care in the
United States-starting with an analysis of the meaning and history
of value measurement-but it does not stop there. It offers a
holistic vision for health care reform, one in which psychiatric
professionals play a pivotal role. A section on system
interventions tackles traditional models of financing health care
and the role of market forces as it considers broad public health
strategies, from elimination of administrative waste to integration
of care, that can reduce costs and improve population health, with
a special emphasis on the interaction between mental and physical
health. Recognizing that these larger-scale interventions require
time to bear fruit, the book also explores the ways the psychiatric
profession and individual psychiatrists can contribute to a more
skill-diverse, collaborative, activist, value-conscious, and
visionary specialty. Several chapters also identify public policy
issues and cultural constructs that go beyond the typical role of
clinicians and health care administrators, but that have the
potential to impact population health in significant ways,
illustrating how different choices could result in remarkable
improvements in social well-being. The incorporation of healthy
practices in the workplace, efforts to mitigate the impact of
climate change, and the elimination of counterproductive
incarceration practices all feature in this discussion. Exhaustive
in approach, the book aims to spur thought, conversation, and
action to improve value in the services the psychiatric profession
provides and the systems in which it operates. Its clear and
compelling message will equip readers to develop an advocacy agenda
that will resonate with nonmedical stakeholders and the practical
strategies needed to see it realized.
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