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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2025

Isabel M. Perera
Isabel M. Perera
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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The Welfare Workforce
Why Mental Health Care Varies Across Affluent Democracies
 , pp. xix - xx
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025
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Abbreviations

AFL-CIO

American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

AFSCME

American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees

AMA

American Medical Association

APA

American Psychiatric Association

CES

Certificat d’études supérieures (Certificate of graduate study)

CFDT

Confédération française démocratique du travail (French Democratic Confederation of Labor)

CGT

Confédération générale du travail (General Confederation of Labor)

CHS

Centre hospitalier spécialisé (Specialty hospital)

CHU

Centre hospitalier universitaire (Academic hospital)

CMHC

community mental health center

CSMF

Confédération des syndicats médicaux français (Confederation of French Medical Trade Unions)

DDASS

Direction départementale des affaires sanitaires et sociales (Département-level agency for health and social affairs)

FO

Force ouvrière (Workers’ Force)

GDP

gross domestic product

IMD

institutions for mental disease

IMD Exclusion

Medicaid provision that prohibits payment to IMDs

ISP

Infirmier de secteur psychiatrique (Psychiatric sector nurse)

KS

Kommunenes Sentralforbund (Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities)

LSS

Lag om stöd och service till vissa funktionshindrade (Law on support and services for certain disabled persons)

NOK

Norwegian krone

NOU

Norsk offentlig utredning (Norwegian government official report)

OECD

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

SEK

Swedish krona

SKTF

Sveriges kommunaltjänstemannaförbund (Swedish Municipal Employees Union)

SOU

Statlig offentlig utredning (Swedish government official report)

SS(D)I

Social Security (Disability) Insurance

Syndicat

Syndicat des médecins des hôpitaux psychiatriques (Trade Union of Psychiatric Hospital Physicians)

USD

United States dollar

WHO

World Health Organization

YAVIS

young, attractive, verbal, intelligent, and successful (per Schofield Reference Schofield1964)

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