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Reinstitutionalisation in mental health care
— comparison of data on service provision from six European countries | | Author(s) | Stefan Priebe, Alli Badesconyi, Angelo Fioritti |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 330, no 7483, 15 January 2005 |
| Pages | pp 123-125 |
| Source | http://www.bmj.com |
| Keywords | Psychiatric treatment ; Psychiatric units ; Comparison ; Longitudinal surveys ; England ; Germany ; Italy ; Netherlands ; Spain ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | England, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden have all experienced de-institutionalisation of mental health care since the 1970s. The authors collected data on changes between 1990/91 and 2002/03. Forensic beds and places in supported housing have increased in all six countries, whereas changes in in involuntary hospital admissions have been inconsistent. The number of psychiatric hospital beds has been reduced in five countries, but only in two countries does this reduction outweigh the number of additional places in forensic institutions and supported housing. The general prison population has substantially increased in all countries. Re-institutionalisation is taking place in European countries with different traditions of health care, although with significant variation between the six countries studied. The precise reasons for the phenomena remain unclear. General attitudes to risk containment in a society, as indicated by the size of the prison population, may be more important than changing morbidity and new methods of mental health care delivery. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050203208 A |
| Classmark | LP: LDL: 48: 3J: 82: 767: 76V: 76H: 76S: 76P * |
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