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01-03-2007 | SPECIAL ISSUE - EDITORIAL
Mental health in Europe: a long road ahead
Authors:
Giovanni de Girolamo, Giovanni Neri
Published in:
European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
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Issue 2/2007
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Excerpt
Mental health care in Europe underwent profound changes in the last 30 years. Almost everywhere in the western European countries hospital-based care has been downsized and a concurrent increase in various forms of community care has taken place. Despite this general trend, many cross-country differences are visible: they concern the extent of the reduction in size and importance of mental hospitals, the setting up of community-based services and the parallel change in staff training, as professional resources are ultimately the crucial factor for granting a different model of treatment and care. …