PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Alexandra Harwin
Editor-in-Chief
Harvard Health Policy Society
Phone: (617) 384-8676
Email: harwin@fas.harvard.edu
Website: www.HHPR.org
CAMBRIDGE MA USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE(TM) -- MAY 12, 2006:
The Harvard Health Policy Review is dedicated to broadening awareness of health policy issues. The semi-annual journal strives to publish high-quality articles covering the entire spectrum of health policy issues and is designed to appeal to audiences with different degrees of familiarity with the subjects of health care and health policy."
SPECIAL MENTAL HEALTH ISSUE:
- Ethnic Barriers to Mental Health Care: Interview with Terry Hutchison, University of California San Francisco, Fresno Medical Education Program
- Overcoming Stigma and Achieving Parity: Steven Hyman's Future for Mental Health Care in America, Provost of Harvard University and Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School
- Three Decades of Mental Health in India: Interview with Gourie Devi, Honorary Expert Advisor for Neuroscience, WHO and Founder, Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology
- Treatment Challenges in Resource-Poor Settings: Interview with R.K. Sabharwal, MD, Department of Pediatrics, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi, India and The Epilepsy Center
- The Social Gradient of Health: A Mental Health Services Research Agenda Based on Principles of Economic and Social Justice by Barbara Dickey, PhD
- Mental Health Care in China: Recent Changes and Future Challenges by Lawrence Park, AM, MD, Zeping Xiao, MD, PhD, Jonathan Worth, MD and Jennifer M. Park, MD
- Schizophrenia: A Complex Disorder That Has Stymied Research Efforts to Uncover Its Origin by Martha E. Shenton, PhD
HEALTH HIGHLIGHTS:
- Interview with Stanley Breznoff, President and CEO, Continuum Health Partners
INTERNATIONAL:
- A Framework for Mental Health Policy, Legislation and Service Development: Addressing Needs and Improving Services by
Michelle Funk, Natalie Drew, Benedetto Saraceno, Jose Miguel Caldas De Almeida, Therese Agossou, Xiangdong Wang and Jacob Taylor
- Maternal Depression and Child Health: The Need for Holistic Health Policies in Developing Countries by Atif Rahman, PhD, MRes, MRCPsych
- Schizophrenia: Disabling Today's Youth by Rangaswamy Thara, MD, PhD
SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION:
Thank you for your interest in the Harvard Health Policy Review. Annual subscriptions may be purchased for $15 per individual or $25 per organization. Your subscription will include the next two issues of the Review (Fall and Spring), as well as unlimited access to archived online articles. You may subscribe at www.hhpr.org/subscribe/.
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