MORE A LINK THAN A DIVISION - HOW CANADA HAS LEARNED FROM US MENTAL-HEALTH POLICY

The Canadian health care system has been frequently discussed but firm ly rejected as a model for guiding the transformation of American medi cine. In mental health care, however, one can find a growing convergen ce between the two systems. This convergence is largely coming about a s a result of Canadian borrowing from American programs and strategies . In this paper we provide examples of planning, service, and policy e lements in U.S. mental health care that Canadians have drawn upon. We analyze this phenomenon in terms of cross-national policy learning, id entifying the factors and forces that facilitate this trend for Canada while impeding it for the United States.