Community psychiatry and deinstitutionalization in Jamaica
Hosp Community Psychiatry
; 45(11): 1122-6, Nov. 1994.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MedCarib
| ID: med-7375
Biblioteca responsável:
JM3.1
Localização: JM3.1; Reprint Collection
ABSTRACT
Between 1960 and 1990, the population of Jamaica's single mental hospital was reduced by 58 percent, from more than 3,000 to less than 1,300. Services were reoriented from mental-hospital-based custodial care to rehabilitative, community-based care with no appreciable increase in the mental health budget. Despite several changes in government over the past 30 years, continuity of public policy and fiscal support has allowed ongoing development of the island's community mental health services. The national community mental health service, which had a case-load of about 14,000 patients in 1990, relies on specially trained psychiatric nurse practitioners who provide crisis management, medication management, and supportive psychotheraphy; make home visits; and carry out treatment plans developed by the community psychiatrist. Community acceptance of mentally ill persons has been enhanced by public education programs and media coverage of advances in treatment (AU)
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Bases de dados internacionais
Contexto em Saúde:
ODS3 - Meta 3.8 Atingir a cobertura universal de saúde
Problema de saúde:
Arranjos de Entrega
Base de dados:
MedCarib
Assunto principal:
Psiquiatria Comunitária
/
Desinstitucionalização
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo prognóstico
Limite:
Adulto
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Humanos
País/Região como assunto:
Caribe Inglês
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Jamaica
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Hosp Community Psychiatry
Ano de publicação:
1994
Tipo de documento:
Artigo