Recent developments in community mental health: Relevance and relationship with the mental health care bill
Community mental health refers to the treatment of persons with mental disorders in the community. In the earlier periods, treatment of patients with mental illness was limited to the mental hospitals or asylums. This paper traces the beginnings of community psychiatry in India from the time Dr. Vid...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry |
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| Online Access: | http://www.indjsp.org/article.asp?issn=0971-9962;year=2015;volume=31;issue=2;spage=153;epage=160;aulast=Chadda |