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Appendix A: Health-Care Utilizations
Appendix A: Health-Care Utilizations
Pages 97-104
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: Hospital care Physician and clinical services Other professional services Dental services Home health care Other health, residential, and personal care Nursing care services Prescription drugs Other nondurable medical products Durable medical products In general, a health-care service site or facility is any location where health care is provided. Health-care facilities might be privately owned as for-profit businesses, publically owned by local governments or the federal government (e.g., US Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals)
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. Practicing psychologists can help with social and mental health problems and use various evidence-based treatments.
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, workplace "onsite clinics" are settings where employers offer medical and wellness services delivered by licensed providers to all or a designated portion of their active populations and other eligible people. Such clinics are typically referred to as health and wellness centers because of the wide variety of first aid, occupational health, acute, primary, specialty, condition management, wellness, and other services offered.
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A community or county mental health care center can provide public mental health care services when a referral to a private doctor or therapist is not possible. Centers are operated by local governments to meet the needs of people whose mental health condition seriously affects their daily functioning.
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According to the National Center for Health Statistics, Americans' use of prescription drugs has grown over the past halfcentury for a variety of reasons, such as the development of new and innovative drug therapies, the expansion of prescription drug coverage by public and private payers, and increased marketing by pharmaceutical companies. Prescription drug development in the second half of the 20th century has focused on chronic diseases, such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and mental health disorders.
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2017. How is health care utilization changing?
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2005. How effective are different types of day care services for people with severe mental disorders?
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