Read Simon Goodwin's
book on Comparative
Mental Health Policy:
From Institutional to
Community Care
COMPARATIVE MENTAL HEALTH POLICY
The rundown of psychiatric hospitals started first in England and the United States. The timing of the shift from institutional to community care and its pace of development varied between countries.
Mental hospital populations peak years:-
| England |
1954 |
| United States | 1955 |
| Canada | 1962 |
| Italy | 1963 |
| France | 1972 |
| Germany | 1973 |
| Denmark | 1976 |
| Sweden | 1977 |
| Netherlands | 1979 |
| Belgium | 1981 |
| Spain | 1981 |
In Canada the
has published a series of
articles Madness
- in seven parts -
expressing concern
about community care.
Are they biased
and scaremongering?
