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Can mental illness be prevented under managed care? 1994

L J Duhl

University of California, Berkeley.

Ideally, managed care should force a focus on all the issues involved in prevention and treatment. Unfortunately, the decisions in managed care are based on costs, along with the intervention techniques, as the most important criteria in choice of treatment. Medical treatment accounts for only 10 percent of health. To find a solution means working together, making the goal "healthy people in a healthy community." Programs such as the Healthy Cities initiative, not managed care, are more likely to realize this goal.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007358	Insurance, Psychiatric	Insurance providing benefits to cover part or all of the psychiatric care.	Insurances, Psychiatric,Psychiatric Insurance,Psychiatric Insurances
D008329	Managed Care Programs	Health insurance plans intended to reduce unnecessary health care costs through a variety of mechanisms, including: economic incentives for physicians and patients to select less costly forms of care; programs for reviewing the medical necessity of specific services; increased beneficiary cost sharing; controls on inpatient admissions and lengths of stay; the establishment of cost-sharing incentives for outpatient surgery; selective contracting with health care providers; and the intensive management of high-cost health care cases. The programs may be provided in a variety of settings, such as HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS and PREFERRED PROVIDER ORGANIZATIONS.	Case Management, Insurance,Insurance Case Management,Managed Health Care Insurance Plans,Managed Care,Care, Managed,Managed Care Program,Management, Insurance Case,Program, Managed Care,Programs, Managed Care
D011314	Preventive Health Services	Services designed for HEALTH PROMOTION.	Health Services, Preventive,Preventive Health,Preventive Health Care,Preventive Health Programs,Preventive Programs,Services, Preventive Health,Care, Preventive Health,Health Care, Preventive,Health Program, Preventive,Health Programs, Preventive,Health Service, Preventive,Health, Preventive,Preventive Health Program,Preventive Health Service,Preventive Program,Program, Preventive,Program, Preventive Health,Programs, Preventive,Programs, Preventive Health,Service, Preventive Health
D003156	Community Mental Health Services	Diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive mental health services provided for individuals in the community.	Community Mental Health Service,Mental Health Services, Community,Assertive Community Treatment,Health Services, Community Mental,Services, Community Mental Health,Services, Mental Health Community,Community Treatment, Assertive,Treatment, Assertive Community
D003659	Decision Making, Organizational	The process by which decisions are made in an institution or other organization.	Organizational Decision Making
D006694	Holistic Health	Health as viewed from the perspective that humans function as complete, integrated units rather than as aggregates of separate parts.	Holistic Medicine,Holistic Therapies,Medicine, Holistic,Whole Person Health,Wholistic Health,Medicine, Wholistic,Wholistic Health Care,Wholistic Medicine,Wholistic Therapies,Care, Wholistic Health,Health Care, Wholistic,Health, Holistic,Health, Whole Person,Health, Wholistic,Holistic Therapy,Person Health, Whole,Therapies, Holistic,Therapies, Wholistic,Therapy, Holistic,Therapy, Wholistic,Wholistic Therapy
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001523	Mental Disorders	Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behavior producing either distress or impairment of function.	Mental Illness,Psychiatric Diseases,Psychiatric Disorders,Psychiatric Illness,Behavior Disorders,Diagnosis, Psychiatric,Mental Disorders, Severe,Psychiatric Diagnosis,Illness, Mental,Mental Disorder,Mental Disorder, Severe,Mental Illnesses,Psychiatric Disease,Psychiatric Disorder,Psychiatric Illnesses,Severe Mental Disorder,Severe Mental Disorders
D014481	United States	A country in NORTH AMERICA between CANADA and MEXICO.