Medicaid policy changes in mental health care and their effect on mental health outcomes

Health Economics, Policy and Law

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 23-49

  Cuellar, Alison Evans ^a   Markowitz, Sara ^b  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b Center for Children and Childhood Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; SEROTONIN NORADRENALIN REUPTAKE INHIBITOR; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DRUG COST; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MANAGED CARE; MEDICAID; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MOOD DISORDER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES (U.S.); CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POLICY MAKING; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 54649083781     PISSN: 17441331     EISSN: 1744134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1744133106006268     Document Type: Article

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