healthcarejournalbr.com | July / August 2008 Issue |
Healthcare Journal of Baton Rouge
79
2007:
NIMH estimates that 9 percent of U.S. adults
have a personality disorder. Rates of bipolar disorder
diagnoses in adolescents increase exponentially.
Male veterans demonstrate double the suicide rate of
the general population.
2008:
Mental Health Insurance Parity legislation
seeks to give mental conditions as much weight as
physical ailments in terms of coverage.
Schizophrenia linked to simultaneous defects in sev-
eral genes. Governor Bobby Jindal boosts budget to
address N.O.'s mental health crisis.