Helping Soldiers Heal : : How the US Army Created a Learning Mental Health Care System / / Jayakanth Srinivasan, Christopher Ivany.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Srinivasan, Jayakanth,; Ivany, Christopher,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 10 b&w line drawings, 1 chart

Helping Soldiers Heal tells the story of the US Army's transformation from a disparate collection of poorly standardized, largely disconnected clinics into one of the nation's leading mental health care systems. It is a step-by-step guidebook for military and civilian health care systems alike. Jayakanth Srinivasan and Christopher Ivany provide a unique insider-outsider perspective as key participants in the process, sharing how they confronted the challenges firsthand and helped craft and guide the unfolding change.The Army's system was being overwhelmed with mental health problems among soldiers and their family members, impeding combat readiness. The key to the transformation was to apply the tenets of "learning" health care systems. Building a learning health care system is hard; building a learning mental health care system is even harder. As Helping Soldiers Heal recounts, the Army overcame the barriers to success, and its experience is full of lessons for any health care system seeking to transform.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Organized Anarchy in Army Mental Health Care -- 2. A Brief and Incomplete History of US Army Mental Health Care -- 3. Organizing a Learning Health Care System -- 4. Five Levels of Learning -- 5. Building Analytics Capabilities to Support Decision Making -- 6. Managing Performance in a Learning Behavioral Health System -- 7. Creating Dissemination and Implementation Capabilities -- 8. Leading a Learning System -- 9. Translating Learning from the Army -- 10. The Path Ahead -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index