Managed care services : policy, programs, and research / Nancy W. Veeder, Wilma Peebles-Wilkins.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The macroeconomic impact of managed care / Judith Shindul-Rothschild -- Biotechnology and managed care: effects on health care cost, clinical practice, and education of health care professionals / Elizabeth Pearson Philp and Barbara Berkman -- The intersection of fee-for-service, managed health care, and cultural competence: implications for national health care policy and services of people of color / King Davis -- Ethics and managed care policy / Frederic G. Reamer -- System care management: purpose, structure, and function / Susan Saunders -- Managed care and child welfare practitioner training needs / Vivian H. Jackson, Charlotte McCullough, and Jan McCarthy -- Managed care and care management for older adults / Scott Miyake Geron -- Managed care and the ecological perspective: meeting the needs of older adults in the twenty-first century / Robert R. Greene and W. Patrick Sullivan -- Outcomes research for children and adolescents: implications for children's mental health and managed care / Susan B. Stern -- Facilitating the enrollment of elderly and disabled persons into medicaid managed care / Susan M. Chandler -- Managed care and the severely mentally ill: current issues and future challenges / Wes Shera -- Research needs in the managed care of substance-abusing patients / Wilma Peebles-Wilkins and Nancy W. Veeder.

This volume explores policy, programmatic, and research issues in the health and behavioural health care system known as managed care. 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 and more.

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