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MEN= TAL=20 HEALTH

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Traditionally, insurance providers have treated mental health as a = category=20 different from other health matters. "Parity" is the term used to = suggest that=20 mental health problems should be treated for insurance purposes as = equivilent to=20 other kinds of health problems.=20

GENERAL=20 SOCIAL POLICY PARITY
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GENERAL SOCIAL POLICY


PARITY

Mental Health


Substance Abuse


Aging


Children


Racial and Ethnic Parity


ADVOCACY


STATISTICS and = DEMOGRAPHICS


Back to Men= tal=20 Health Project.=20

These resource lists are being maintained by Debbie Plotnick, = working with=20 Paul Grobstein, Department of Biology, and James Martin, School of = Social Work=20 and Social Research, at Bryn Mawr College. Suggestions for additions to = the list=20 are welcome, as are more general thoughts about how to most effectively = make=20 available information, and promote conversation, about issues of mental = health.=20 Contact dplotnic@brynmawr.edu - pgrobste@brynmawr.edu - jmartin@brynmawr.edu. =


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