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- Title
The patient as a policy factor: a historical case study of the consumer/survivor movement in mental health.
- Authors
Tomes, Nancy
- Abstract
This paper analyzes the history of the modern consumer/survivor movement and its impact on the policy-making climate in the mental health field. The growing attentiveness to consumers' perspectives is presented largely as a consequence, not a cause, of radical restructurings of the mental health system. Consumers' perspectives have entered policy discourse in the wake of policy failures and have flourished in a climate of perpetual crisis and tight budgets. Precisely because it has been such a contested arena for so long, the mental health field has produced some innovative responses to demands for patient empowerment.
- Publication
Health affairs (Project Hope), 2006, Vol 25, Issue 3, p720
- ISSN
1544-5208
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1377/hlthaff.25.3.720