We find four key lessons that health policymakers and practitioners should be aware of: the potential of services liberalization to incur high transition and transaction costs; the difficulty of reconciling economic and social policy goals and the subsequent high likelihood of backlash; the...

Contemporary involvement of citizens in the formation of mental health policies continues a long history of influential lay advocates achieving desired reforms. The Community Mental Health Centers Program arose from, and also recognized, the citizens' movement for community care. This...