By Richard G. Frank and Sherry A. Glied. 183 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. $39.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). ISBN 0-8018-8442-X (cloth); 0-8018-8443-8 (paper).
Mental health policy has had a checkered history over the pasthalf-century, particularly in regard to patients with the mostserious and persistent mental disorders. In Better but Not Well,Richard Frank and Sherry Glied, two outstanding health economists,present an empirically based assessment of the evolution ofmental health policies and services since 1950. They concludethat there have been many improvements in financing and treatmentsbut that the field remains far from well. Mental health professionalstoo often focus on designated mental health funding, neglectingthe important fact that mental health policy and the systemof services are . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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