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Research suggests that untreated mental health problems can lead to greater utilization of general medical services by patients over time. This volume presents a number of essays discussing the phenomenon of medical cost offsetting and it's potential for changing our healthcare system for the better.
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This volume, the result of a national conference sponsored by The Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Foundation and the University of Nevada, Reno, examines the phenomenon called medical cost offset. The specific question that interests us in this book is: Can the cost of detecting and treating patients' psychosocial problems (from subclinical problems such as stress, to mental disorders such as depression, to adjunctive problems such as treatment adherence, or finally, lifestyle issues such as poor exercise habits) be offset by decreased medical utilization in the future?
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