Integrating Care: Improving Overall Health by Integrating Behavioral/Mental Health Care into Primary Care

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Macaran A. Baird, University of Minnesota

Description/Abstract

Hippocrates noted that the patient must be attended in light of “his” diet, work, home, and community setting. Since that time, we have struggled with the dilemma of how to put the patient’s presenting problems in the context of the patient’s life circumstances. That goal has proven elusive. So how do we sort out where to put the emphasis with our healing arts?

Document Type

Policy Brief

Date

8-2012

Language

English

Series

Reports Series

Acknowledgements

The Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy, sponsored by the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University and the Central New York Community Foundation, Inc., honors the memory of Herbert Lourie, MD, a distinguished Syracuse neurosurgeon, professor, and community leader for nearly 30 years. Generous contributions from his family, friends and colleagues, and former patients have endowed this series.

Disciplines

Economics | Finance and Financial Management | Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration | Public Health | Sociology | Urban Studies and Planning

Additional Information

Policy brief no. 45

Recommended Citation

Baird, Macaran A., "Integrating Care: Improving Overall Health by Integrating Behavioral/Mental Health Care into Primary Care" (2012). Center for Policy Research. 285.
https://surface.syr.edu/cpr/285

Source

Local input

Creative Commons License

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Rights

© 2012, Syracuse University. This publication may be distributed freely for educational and research uses as long as this copyright notice is attached. No commercial use of this material may be made without express written permission.