TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Psychiatric crisis care and the more is less paradox
JO  - Community mental health journal
A1  - Drake, Robert E.
A1  - Bond, Gary R.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - Psychiatric crisis care in the U.S. exemplifies the "more is less paradox" of U.S. health care. We spend more for health care than any other high-income country, yet our outcomes are typically poor compared to these other countries (OECD in OECD health statistics. Retrieved from https://www.oced.org/health/health-data.html , 2020). We do this, in part, by emphasizing medical treatments for problems that are inherently social, rather than addressing social determinants of health. Medical interventions for socio-economic problems are usually expensive and ineffective. For mental health crisis care, adding unfunded, untested, medical interventions to the current mélange of poorly funded, disorganized arrangements will not help. Instead, the U.S. should address social determinants, emphasize research-based interventions, and emphasize prevention-proven strategies that decrease costs and improve outcomes.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0010-3853
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10597-021-00829-2
ID  - ref1
ER  -