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Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.2.210

This paper describes an attempt to evaluate the mental health services offered to Alaskan Natives. The concern of the authors was not the outcome of treatment, but whether the delivery system was functioning efficiently. Restricting their study to a single problem—alcoholism—they describe how their method of evaluation was developed and applied to programs and agencies in Alaska.

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