Perspective : Public - Sector Mental Health Care : New

Challenges Perspective : Public - Sector Mental Health Care : New

Governance, Government, and the Search for New Provider Models

A central problem in designing effective models of provider governance in health systems has been to ensure an appropriate balance between the concerns of public sector and/or government decision-makers, on the one hand, and of non-governmental health services actors in civil society and private life, on the other. In tax-funded European health systems up to the 1980s, the state and other publi...

Managed mental health care in the public sector.

Due to strong market forces and payor concerns, first in the private and now in the public sector, the mental health field is changing. The survivors and leaders will be the innovators and risk takers. They must have the ability to look critically at themselves and make needed changes. This new environment creates great opportunity to provide better mental health care. Capitated mental health p...

Do adults in contact with Australia's public sector mental health services get better?

This paper describes the outcomes of episodes of care for adults in public sector mental health services across Australia, with a view to informing the debate on service quality. Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS) change scores and effect sizes were calculated for 14,659 acute inpatient episodes and 23,692 community episodes. The results showed that people in contact with public sector...

Previous private psychiatric treatment among public mental patients: a preliminary local survey.

There has been considerable concern over disturbances to the public-private equilibrium in local health care provision. We investigated the situation among mental patients. Only 11.5% of new patients presenting to a public general hospital psychiatric unit had consulted a private sector psychiatrist previously. Of these, 60% had moved to the public sector for financial reasons and the same prop...