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Druss, Benjamin and Mechanic, David. “Should Visit Length be Used as a Quality Indicator in Primary
Care?” Lancet, 361(9364): 1148, 2003.
Mechanic, David. “Managing Behavioral Health in Medicaid.” Editorial. New England Journal of
Medicine, 348(19): 1914-1916, 2003.
Mechanic, David. “Who Shall Lead? Is There a Future for Population Health?” Journal of Health
Politics, Policy and Law (Special Conference Issue), 28(2-3): 421-442, 2003.
Mechanic, David. “Physician Discontent: Challenges and Opportunities.” Journal of the American
Medical Association, 290(7): 941-946, 2003.
Mechanic, David. “Policy Challenges in Improving Mental Health Services: Some Lessons from the Past.”
Psychiatric Services, 54(9): 1227-1232, 2003.
Mechanic, David. “Is Prevalence of Mental Disorders A Good Measure of The Need For Services?”
Health Affairs, 22(5): 8-20, 2003.
Mechanic, David. “Targeting HMOs: Stalemate in the U.S. Health Care Debate.” Contexts, 3(2):27-34,
2004.
Mechanic, David and Bilder, Scott. “Treatment of People with Mental Illness: A Decade-Long
Perspective.” Health Affairs, 23(4): 84-95, 2004.
Mechanic, David. “In My Chosen Doctor I Trust.” British Medical Journal, 329(7480): 1418-1419,
2004.
Mechanic, David. “The Rise and Fall of Managed Care.” Journal of Health & Social Behavior, 45
(Extra Issue): 76-86, 2004.
Mechanic, David. “Policy Challenges in Addressing Racial Disparities and Improving Population Health.”
Health Affairs, 24(2): 335-338, 2005.
Mechanic, David. “The Media, Public Perceptions and Health, and Health Policy.” Houston Journal of
Health Law & Policy, 5(2): 187-211, 2005.
Mechanic, David. “Organization of Care and Quality of Life of Persons with Serious and Persistent
Mental Illness.” In H. Katschnig, H. Freeman and N. Sartorius (eds.) Quality of Life in Mental
Disorders, 309-319, Revised Edition. Chichester/New York: Wiley-Interscience, 2006.
Mechanic, David and Grob, Gerald N. “ Rhetoric, Realities and the Plight of the Mentally Ill in
America.” In Rosemary A. Stevens, Charles E. Rosenberg and Lawton R. Burns, eds., History
and Health Policy in the United States, 229-249. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,
2006.
Blitz, Cynthia L. and Mechanic, David. “Facilitators and Barriers to Employment among Individuals with
Psychiatric Disabilities: A Job Coach Perspective.” Work, 26: 407-419, 2006.
Nutt, David J., Kessler, Ronald C., Alonso, J., Benbow, A., Lecrubier, Y., Lépine, J.-P., Mechanic, D., and
Tylee, A. “Consensus Statement on the Benefit to the Community of ESEMeD (European Study
of the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders) Survey Data on Depression and Anxiety.” Journal of
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