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Meeting the Health Care Needs of Adults with Severe Mental Illness
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Horvitz-Lennon, Marcela Kilbourne, Amy M. Pincus, Harold Alan |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Abstract | tension and diabetes. Yet this population has less access to treatment and receives poorer quality of care than adults without mental illness. A team of analysts from the University of Pittsburgh and RAND outlined a framework and identifi ed specifi c steps to improve general health care for this group. Th e team concluded that a key contributor to this problem is disconnection between the mental health care sector, which provides most of the care for the severely mentally ill, and the general health care sector. To address this problem, the analysts made a number of recommendations aimed at improving the level of clinical integration between these sectors, outlined in the following steps: |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_briefs/2006/RAND_RB9191.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_briefs/2006/RAND_RB9191.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Notice |
