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The field of mental health services research (MHSR) focuses on the organization, financing, and delivery of mental health services (MHS) in a cost-effective way. Like health services research but with a broader scope, MHSR is concerned with issues of financing, access, effectiveness, and how limited...

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Published inSchizophrenia bulletin Vol. 18; no. 4; pp. 669 - 700
Main Authors Mechanic, D, Bevilacqua, J J, Goldman, H, Hargreaves, W, Howe, J, Knisley, M, Scherl, D J, Stuart, G, Unhjem, M B, Lalley, T L
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States National Institute of Mental Health 1992
Subjects
Community Mental Health Services - trends
Health Priorities - trends
Health Resources - trends
Health Services Needs and Demand - trends
Health Services Research - trends
Human
Humans
Mental Disorders
Mental Health Services
National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)
Patient Care Team - trends
Quality of Life
Rehabilitation
Research Support as Topic - trends
Schizophrenia - rehabilitation
Schizophrenic Psychology
Social Environment
Treatment
United States
United States
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Summary:The field of mental health services research (MHSR) focuses on the organization, financing, and delivery of mental health services (MHS) in a cost-effective way. Like health services research but with a broader scope, MHSR is concerned with issues of financing, access, effectiveness, and how limited resources can be applied to achieve the best possible outcomes as measured by successful treatment, increased function, and improved quality of life. Mental health treatment and rehabilitation require not only effective psychiatric and medical care but also a wide range of social, educational, vocational, and housing services, which makes MHS coordination highly complex. Severe mental illness imposes enormous burdens on those afflicted, their families, and the community. Although the costs of mental illness for treatment and maintenance, in lost productivity, and in disability and suffering are so great, very little is invested in understanding how to reduce these costs and to use available mental health resources to achieve the best possible outcomes for individuals and communities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
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ISSN:0586-7614
1745-1701
DOI:10.1093/schbul/18.4.669