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Published Online: 25 April 2018

Integrating Health and Mental Health Services: A Past and Future History

Abstract

The authors trace the modern history, current landscape, and future prospects for integration between mental health and general medical care in the United States. Research and new treatment models developed in the 1980s and early 1990s helped inform federal legislation, including the 2008 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act and the 2010 Affordable Care Act, which in turn are creating new opportunities to further integrate services. Future efforts should build on this foundation to develop clinical, service-level, and public health approaches that more fully integrate mental, medical, substance use, and social services.
[AJP AT 175: Remembering Our Past As We Envision Our Future
July 1928: A President Takes Stock
Adolf Meyer: “I sometimes feel that Einstein, concerned with the relativity in astronomy, has to deal with very simple facts as compared to the complex and erratic and multicontingent performances of the human microcosmos, the health, happiness and efficiency of which we psychiatrists are concerned with.” (Am J Psychiatry 1928; 85(1):1–31)]

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American Journal of Psychiatry
Pages: 1199 - 1204
PubMed: 29690794

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Received: 11 February 2018
Revision received: 1 March 2018
Accepted: 5 March 2018
Published online: 25 April 2018
Published in print: December 01, 2018

Keywords

  1. History Of Psychiatry
  2. Consultation-Liaison

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Benjamin G. Druss, M.D., M.P.H. [email protected]
From the Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta.
Howard H. Goldman, M.D., Ph.D.
From the Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta.

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Address correspondence to Dr. Druss ([email protected]).

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The authors report no financial relationships with commercial interests.

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NIH: ROI MH 100467

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