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Community psychiatry in Europe: assessment and evaluation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2014

David Goldberg
David Goldberg*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, UK
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It is tempting to suppose that changes in the mental illness service in one's own part of Europe are taking place elsewhere as well. The asylum era is drawing to a close, and politicians everywhere are closing mental illness beds in order to re-distribute health costs in order to pay for new treatments needing expensive technology, as well as to allow for the needs of a population that is now living longer.

In an attempt to become independent of official figures, key figures with a reputation for epidemiological psychiatry were approached in each European country, and asked to complete a brief questionnaire describing the mental health services in their country. Whether this method produces figures that are more or less accurate than official government figures is a question that cannot be addressed at present.

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Section D: Developing the Public Health Perspective in European Mental Health Services
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Epidemiologia e psichiatria sociale. Monograph Supplement , Volume 6 , Issue S1: Monograph Supplement 1: Making Rational Mental Health Services , April 1997 , pp. 217 - 227
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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