Word: healthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Called "Privatization of Mental Health Care: A National Perspective," the conference revealed mixed responses to what researchers have called the "megatrend" of privatization. For-profit corporations in 1986 provided 15 percent of all nonfederal psychiatric care, up from 1 percent in 1970, researchers...
However, growing private health care has expanded access for some groups, particularly children and drug addicts. Others, however, such as the seriously mentally ill, have lost out as their treatment programs become less profitable, researchers said...
...fourth panel, Dorwart and Assistant Professor of Social Medicine Mark Schlesinger presented a study sponsored by the National Institute ofMental Health (NIMH...
...study, based on surveys of hospitals,community health centers and privatepsychiatrists, asked about the ownership ofhospitals and health care facilities by largecorporations and how open competitive marketsaffect mental health care...
...study found evidence of rapid privatizationand increase in inpatient services the pastdecade, but warned of a trend toward a"three-tiered", income-based system of access tohealth care. It predicted a slow-down, however,and warned of funding shortages and shake-outs inthe health industry...