Movements in Mental Health Policy
A period of time where most people were treated in institutions
What is Institutionalization?
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?
This public insurance plan covers children.
What is SCHIP?
This type of access is when an individual actually receives the care offered.
What is realized access?
Where people live, work, and play.
What are the social determinants of health?
A realization that institutions were providing horrible care that resulted in moving individuals from asylums back into the community.
What is de-institutionalization?
This study investigated Latino mental health, and is the origin of our understanding of the immigrant paradox in health.
What is the NLAAS?
This public insurance plan covers elders and those with disabilities.
What is Medicare?
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?
A system of governance where states and federal government share certain powers and responsibilities
What is Federalism?
The use of medical knowledge to define/understand/treat human conditions.
What is medicalization?
This study focuses on mental health and illness in the Black community.
What is the NSBA? or the NSAL?
This public insurance plan is funded through a mix of state and federal dollars.
What is Medicaid?
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?
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?
This movement, led by former psychiatric patients, advocated for peer-run programs and a patients' bill of rights.
What is the Consumer Movement?
This study attempts to estimate the national impact of mental illness, measuring its frequency and persistence across populations.
What is the NCS?
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?
These three components are the critical factors of a health care escape fire.
What are access, science and relationship/interaction?
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?
This dataset combines all of the smaller studies into one large database.
What are the CPES?
What is capitation?
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?
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?