A comprehensive examination of setting mental health services priorities that explores the history, ethics, and politics of setting priorities for public mental health services. It also explores the social factors that most influence attempts to set priorities. It illustrates priorities at the federal level and in the private sector.

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I. Influences in Priority Setting 1. Minds and Hearts: Priorities in Mental Health Services Philip J. Boyle and Daniel Callahan 2. Government and Mental Health Policy: A Structural Analysis Gerald Grob 3. Establishing Mental Health Priorities David Mechanic 4. Who Will Set Priorities for Mental Health? Leslie Scallet and James Havel 5. Law and Priority Setting Len Rubenstein 6. Private Insurance Priorities: Its Effect on Mental Health Priorities Miriam Cotler and Brian Gould II. Priority Setting Case Studies 7. Prioritization of Mental Health Services in Oregon David Pollack, Bentson McFarland, Robert George, Richard Angell 8. Mental Health Coverage in Health Care Reform: The Case of New York State Richard Surles and Cynthia Feiden-Warsh III. Ethical Issues in Setting Priorities 9. Setting Mental Health Priorities: Problems and Possibilities Daniel Callahan 10. Priority Setting in Mental Health? Robert Michels 11. Tragedy, Prejudice, and Publicity in Setting Priorities James Nelson 12. What Level of Government? Balancing the Interests of the State and Local Community Howard Goldman, Richard Frank, Martin Gaynor 13. Some Unresolved Ethical Issues in Priority Setting of Mental Health Services Dan Brock