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Healing Body and Mind A Critical Issue for Health Care Reform
Roger Kathol, Suzanne Gatteau
Foreword by Mary Jane England, M.D.
Book Code: C9201
ISBN: 0-275-99201-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-99201-9
216 pages, figures; tables
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 3/30/2007
List Price: $49.95 (UK Sterling Price: £27.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Mental health and substance-use disorder care are afterthoughts in the current U.S. health care system, according to the chair of an Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee. In line with IOM recommendations, Dr. Kathol and Gatteau offer a prescription for reforming the "mind-less," dis-integrated" system. For consumers as well as health care administrators, they include case vignettes of complex patients in their analysis toward integrating care for physical and behavioral illness. Alternative medicine gets only passing mention.
    —SciTech Book News     June 2007
Description: It doesn't make sense to treat Dan's bleeding ulcer without attention to the depression that spurs him to drink alcohol excessively, which contributes to ulcer development. Nor is it prudent to ignore Nancy's anxiety that prevents her from following through on chemotherapy for breast cancer. The connections are obvious, yet today connecting treatments for body and mind is a rare occurrence. Mental health and substance-abuse assessments and interventions are separated by the payment mechanics of health plans, which encourage independent delivery of services. Dr. Kathol, a veteran internist and psychiatrist, shows the physical,emotional, social, economic and legal effects of what he calls "headless health care." He illustrates with patient stories the profound impact that emotional issues and/or psychiatric disorders have on physical health and, conversely, the impact medical illness has on mental health. This book begins with stories of real patients suffering with concurrent behavioral and physical disorders who are forced to navigate a health care system that fosters what Kathol calls inferior care, escalating the costs and perpetuating personal impairment. He calls for health system reorganization wherein behavioral health becomes an integral part of physical health--integrated health care. The text provides:
  • Historical context about mental health problems and their treatment
  • Understanding of the interaction between physical and mental health
  • Insights into process changes needed to create an effective integrated system
    • LC Card Number: 2006039615
    LCC Class: RA790
    Dewey Class: 362
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