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Mental health services in HMOs: An oxymoron?

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Dr. Hornbrook is Senior Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, and Professor, Community Health Care Systems Department, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon. Presented at the 115th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 20, 1987. The views expressed in this paper are those of the author and no official endorsement by Kaiser Permanente is intended or should be inferred.

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Hornbrook, M.C. Mental health services in HMOs: An oxymoron?. Administration in Mental Health 15, 236–245 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00818724

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