Movements in Mental Health Policy
Research and Its Acronyms
Insurance Trivia
Quality and Access
Health Policy Vocabulary
100

A period of time where most people were treated in institutions

What is Institutionalization?

100

This study identified the link between events that occur in the first five years of life and later health outcomes.

What is the ACES study?

100

This public insurance plan covers children.

What is SCHIP?

100

This type of access is when an individual actually receives the care offered.

What is realized access?

100

Where people live, work, and play.

What are the social determinants of health?

200

A realization that institutions were providing horrible care that resulted in moving individuals from asylums back into the community.

What is de-institutionalization?

200

This study investigated Latino mental health, and is the origin of our understanding of the immigrant paradox in health.

What is the NLAAS?

200

This public insurance plan covers elders and those with disabilities.

What is Medicare?

200

This type of access takes into account the need for care, spreading the resources across a population based on their need for care.

What is equitable access?

200

A system of governance where states and federal government share certain powers and responsibilities

What is Federalism?

300

The use of medical knowledge to define/understand/treat human conditions.

What is medicalization?

300

This study focuses on mental health and illness in the Black community.

What is the NSBA? or the NSAL?

300

This public insurance plan is funded through a mix of state and federal dollars.

What is Medicaid?

300

The surgeon general states "racial and ethnic minorities collectively experience a greater disability burden from mental illness than do whites. This higher level of burden stems from minorities receiving less care and poorer quality of care, rather than from their illnesses being inherently more severe or prevalent in the community".  This is an example of what?

What is a health disparity?

300

This type of measure exams the quality of care by looking at the way that care is delivered, rather than where it is delivered or the outcome of that delivery.

What is a process measure?

400

This movement, led by former psychiatric patients, advocated for peer-run programs and a patients' bill of rights.

What is the Consumer Movement?

400

This study attempts to estimate the national impact of mental illness, measuring its frequency and persistence across populations.

What is the NCS?

400

Under this type of insurance reimbursement, a doctor or therapist receives payment by billing for individual services (for instance, stitches, visit, x ray).

What is fee-for-service?

400

These three components are the critical factors of a health care escape fire.

What are access, science and relationship/interaction?

400

This landmark piece of legislation demanded that insurance companies provide the same coverage for mental health disorders as for physical health disorders.

What is the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act?

500
This mental health movement defines treatment success as the ability to live, work and participate fully in the things that individuals' believe are meaningful to their lives.
What is the Recovery Movement?
500

This dataset combines all of the smaller studies into one large database.

What are the CPES?

500
In this payment structure, a provider receives a single payment to cover the cost of all of the case for an individual for a specific period of time.

What is capitation?

500

This report, produced by the Institute of Medicine, identified significant gaps in the quality of health and behavioral health care, outlining steps for improvement.

What is Crossing the Quality Chasm?

500

A general term that refers to a variety of organizational and financial structures, processes, and strategies designed to monitor and influence treatment decisions so as to provide care in the most cost-effective way

What is managed care?

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