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Mental Health

Our Health Policy Matters often focuses on mental health.  This page contains links to many of those columns.

For more information about a variety of contemporary issues in mental health policy, please click on any of the following column titles to be taken to the full column (and hyperlinks within columns to many relevant sources of good mental health data and information).

More recent blogs written by the author about mental health policy can be found here.

For the 37 Percent, Stigma Trumps Acceptance

New Programs Show Value of Health and Behavioral Health Integration

Veterans and Mental Illness - A 2013 Update

Is Medicare Clearing Better Pathways to Wellness for Men with Depression?

Women and Depression - Stoicism or Neglect?

Why Are We Afraid of Mental Health Screening?

Mental Illnesses a Leading Cause of Hospital Admissions, But Treatment Lags Behind

Let's Treat Mental Illness Before It's Too Late

A Long Road Back To Sanity: States Finally Reversing Cuts to Mental Health

The Chain of Neglect: The Real Link Between Violence and Mental Illness

The Tragedy of Sandy Hook

When George McGovern Made Mental Health a Campaign Issue

Pushing for Mental  Health Parity

Our Mental Health Policy Mistakes and the Sons and Daughters Who Pay for Them

Mental Illness, Aging, and the Failure of Public Policy

Mental Disorders in the Armed Forces

Iraq and Back: Veterans Experience Tragic Delays in Seeking Mental Health Care

Anna Brown's Death

The Disintegration of Health and Mental Health Care

Mental Health Cuts Will Lead to Increased Health Costs

California Screaming

Veterans Dazed, Not Dazzled, By Mental Health Care

BCBSFL Wrong to Cut Mental Health Providers

Fifty Years Later: Class, Children, Mental Illness, and Cancer

Veterans and Mental Illness

Mental Health Budget Cutters on the Wrong Side of Reality

Making People With Mental Illness Pay the Price

Violence is a Public Health, Not a Mental Health, Problem

The Mental Illness Epidemic





















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