Managed Care Services

This edited volume explores policy, programmatic, and research issues in the complex health and behavioural health care system known as managed care. Critical discussions include such areas as the evolution of health care from essential social good to a commodity, cost of and access to care, parity of behavioural health services reimbursement, education of health care professional, care management, and ethics. The importance of research, especially programme outcome assessments, is also emphasized. Throughout, the focus is on the current inadequacy of managed health and behavioural health care systems to deliver services to those most-at-risk such as children, the elderly, the disabled, mentally ill, substance abusers, and minorities of colour. Includes a foreword by James J Callahan.