Six decades of community psychiatry in India

The community psychiatry movement started in India in the early 1950s. It has gone through different phases of development, beginning with family care of people who are mentally ill in the campus of the mental hospitals, followed by satellite clinics and a national mental health programme. Other ini...

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Autor principal: Chadda, R. K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2012
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Special Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6735056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31508119
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spelling pubmed-67350562019-09-10 Six decades of community psychiatry in India Chadda, R. K. Int Psychiatry Special Paper The community psychiatry movement started in India in the early 1950s. It has gone through different phases of development, beginning with family care of people who are mentally ill in the campus of the mental hospitals, followed by satellite clinics and a national mental health programme. Other initiatives have included the camp approach, initiatives by non-government organisations and the media, and mental health services for disaster-affected populations. The paper traces the development of community psychiatry in India over the past six decades. The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2012-05-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6735056/ /pubmed/31508119 Text en © 2012 The Royal College of Psychiatrists http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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