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The Relationship Between Psychiatric Research and Public Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Leon Eisenberg
Leon Eisenberg*
Affiliation:
Department of Social Medicine and Health Policy, Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Abstract

The rationale upon which public policy for the support of psychiatric research has been fashioned and the extent to which the results of that research are used to shape public mental-health policy are examined. Support for research competes with other claims for resource allocation and the decisions made reflect the relative strength of the interested constituencies. When research findings promise cost savings, they are readily adopted (sometimes unwisely so), but when they require substantial new outlays or changes in bureaucratic agencies, they are all too often ignored.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 153 , Issue 1 , July 1988 , pp. 21 - 29
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988 

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