OBJECTIVE The federal government boosted support for community health centers in medically underserved areas in 2002-2007. This investigation compared trends in behavioral health services provided by community health centers nationwide during the first several years of that initiative with immediately prior trends. METHODS Data were extracted from the Health Resources and Services Administrat...

This paper surveys the literature on the impacts of the Basel Capital Accords on banking market profitability, competitiveness, structure and risk-taking. Special emphasis is applied to the evolution of mortgage markets throughout the world over almost two decades of international bank regulatory policies. This paper has received generous financial support from the Canada Housing and Mortgage C...

CMHC then contracted with 10 consulting firms to gather data from apartment buildings across the country. Construction dates of the buildings range from 1920 to 1993.The buildings are from six to 26 storeys in height and from 3,345 m to 26,795 m in size, with a total of 27 to 400 suites per building. The buildings are located in the West Coast, Prairie, Central and Atlantic regions of the count...

Background: Incarceration rates for people with serious mental illnesses are higher than the general population. However, research has been limited in regards to patterns of incarcerations for patients treated in public mental health settings. This study examines differences in lifetime imprisonment rates among patients of a U.S. urban Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) and national samples,...

Initial enthusiasm about community mental health centers (CMHCs) has diminished. The participation of psychiatrists in CMHCs declined in the 1970s and may decline further. The author describes one center to highlight problems encountered by community psychiatrists: 1) unrealistic treatment expectations, 2) limitations of psychiatric knowledge, 3) need for a broad range of clinical expertise, 4)...

In the mid-1960s, when the community mental health/mental retardation movement took shape, many child mental health professionals, especially those working in community services, welcomed it eagerly. Probably the majority of mental health professionals did not: they experienced serious misgivings, fearing that community mental health centers would have harmful effects on psychiatric and mental ...