Mental Health Care Financing in the Process of Change : : Challenges and Approaches for Austria.

• Superior document: Forschungsergebnisse der Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien Series ; v.8
• Author: Zechmeister, Ingrid.
• Place / Publishing House: Frankfurt a.M. : : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,, 2005.; Ã2006.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Forschungsergebnisse der Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (186 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1. BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATION OF RESEARCH -- 1.2. RESEARCH QUESTION -- 1.3. METHODS, METHODOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL BACKGROUND -- 1.4. STRUCTURE -- 2. PERSPECTIVES OF MENTAL ILLNESS -- 2.1. CONCEPTS OF MENTAL ILLNESS FROM A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- 2.2. TERMINOLOGY AND DEFINITIONS -- 2.3. DIMENSIONS OF MENTAL ILLNESS -- 2.3.1. Epidemiology -- 2.3.2. Socio-economic Status and Mental Illness -- 2.3.3. The Burden of Mental Illness -- 2.4. CONCLUSION -- 3. MENTAL HEALTH CARE STRUCTURES IN AUSTRIA -- 3.1. MENTAL HEALTH CARE SERVICE CATEGORIES: AN OVERVIEW -- 3.2. MENTAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES WITHIN THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM -- 3.2.1. Primary Care Services -- 3.2.2. Secondary Care Services -- 3.3. MENTAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES OUTSIDE THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM -- 3.3.1. Mobile and Ambulatory Psychiatric Services (MAPS), Social Day Structure Services and Employment Related Services -- 3.3.2. Residential Care -- 3.4. SERVICE PROVIDERS: A PUBLIC-PRIVATE Mix -- 3.5. CONCLUSION -- 4. MENTAL HEALTH CARE FINANCING -- 4.1. AN OVERVIEW OF MENTAL HEALTH CARE FINANCING IN WESTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES -- 4.1.1. Sources of Funding -- 4.1.1.1. Funding Mental Health Care Services within the Health Care System -- 4.1.1.2. Funding Mental Health Care Services outside the Health Care System -- 4.1.2. Transfer of Funds and Resource Allocation Processes -- 4.2. CASE-STUDY: UK -- 4.2.1. Sources of Funding -- 4.2.1.1. Funding Mental Health Care Services within the Health Care System -- 4.2.1.2. Funding Mental Health Care Services outside the Health Care System -- 4.2.2. Transfer of Funds and Resource Allocation Processes -- 4.3. CASE-STUDY: GERMANY -- 4.3.1. Sources of Funding -- 4.3.1.1. Funding Mental Health Care Services within the Health Care System.

4.3.1.2. Funding Mental Health Care Services outside the Health Care System -- 4.3.2. Transfer of Funds and Resource Allocation Processes -- 4.4. CASE-STUDY: AUSTRIA -- 4.4.1. Sources of Funding -- 4.4.1.1. Funding Mental Health Care Services within the Health Care System -- 4.4.1.2. Funding Mental Health Care Services Outside the Health Care System -- 4.4.2. Transfer of Funds and Resource Allocation Processes -- 4.5. CONCLUSION -- 5. PARADIGM SHIFT IN MENTAL HEALTH CARE: AN EXPLORATION OF MENTAL HEALTH CARE REFORM OBJECTIVES AND REFORM PROCESSES -- 5.1. CENTRAL FEATURES OF CHANGE FROM AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE -- 5.2. MENTAL HEALTH CARE REFORM AND REFORM DISCOURSE IN AUSTRIA: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS -- 5.2.1. Rationale -- Excursus: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations of a 'Critical Discourse Analysis' -- 5.2.2. Empirical Data, Method and Analytical Framework -- 5.2.3. Mental Health Care Policy in Austria since the 1960s: A Brief Historical Overview -- 5.2.4. Mental Health Care Plans in Austria: Development and Contents -- 5.2.5. Analysis of Reform Discourses and Processes -- 5.2.5.1. The Different Faces of Community Mental Health Care -- 5.2.5.2. Actor-relationships and Discourse Struggles -- 5.2.5.3. Mental Health Care between Economisation and Changing Patterns of Governance -- 5.2.5.4. Towards a Liberal Model of Mental Health Care? -- 5.3. CONCLUSION -- 6. MENTAL HEALTH CARE FINANCING IN THE LIGHT OF REFORM OBJECTIVES AND DISCOURSE -- 6.1. ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK -- 6.2. MENTAL HEALTH CARE FINANCING AND IMPACTS ON THE MACRO LEVEL -- 6.2.1. The Changing Role of the State -- 6.2.2. The Rising Position of the 'Market' -- 6.3. MENTAL HEALTH CARE FINANCING AND IMPACTS ON THE MICRO LEVEL -- 6.3.1. Shifting of the Financial Burden on the Individual Level -- 6.3.2. 'Consumers' of Mental Health Care: Opportunities and Pitfalls.

6.4. CONCLUSION -- 7. CONCLUDING REMARKS: WHAT FINANCING FOR MENTAL HEALTH CARE? -- 7.1. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS -- 7.2. GUIDELINES FOR DISCUSSING FINANCING OPTIONS -- 7.2.1. Content Dimension -- 7.2.2. Process Dimension -- 7.3. CLOSING STATEMENT.