Thursday, June 21, 2007

Debate about public funding of mental health services

A debate that is currently very active across several countries is the extent to which we should extend funding and increase the provision of mental health services. Many of our group want eventually to become mental health practitioners. i think it would be a good idea to blog some evidence related to whether spending more money on mental health services is a good idea. Below is the case being made by Richard Layard of the LSE.

http://cep.lse.ac.uk/layard/psych_treatment_centres.pdf

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