3424.0 Organization and Financing of Mental Health Care

Monday, October 27, 2008: 4:30 PM
Oral
Leading researchers will present their work related to the ways that the organization and financing of mental health care affect the kind and quality of care people receive, along with whether or not care is received at all.
Session Objectives: Learners will be able to review the mental health-related challenges in other countries, in rural US settings, for people with schizophrenia who are on Medicaid, and for those in urban US settings and to strategize about how to reduce barriers to care.
Moderator:
Gregory B. Teague, PhD

4:30 PM
Mental health leadership in developing countries
Richard H. Beinecke, DPA, ACSW
        
4:48 PM
Impact of Medicaid cutbacks on people with schizophrenia who use atypical antipsychotic medication
Bentson McFarland, MD and Jon Collins, PhD
  
5:06 PM
Rural Mental Health Access: A Crisis in Public Mental Health?
Theodore W. McDonald, PhD, Linda S. Osgood and Michael Crabtree, PhD
  
5:24 PM
Relationship between patient socio-demographic characteristics and discontinuance of olanzapine following a new prior authorization requirement in Florida's Medicaid Program
Marion Ann Becker, PhD, Robert J. Constantine, PhD, John Robst, PhD and Timothy Boaz, PhD
  
5:42 PM
Perceived neighborhood quality, individual SES, civic participation and health, mental health and drug abuse/alcohol service access: An analysis of adults in the city of Los Angeles, CA
Jennifer L. Magnabosco, PhD

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Mental Health
Endorsed by: Socialist Caucus

CE Credits: CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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