Community mental health services in Malaysia
The need to confine and restrain psychotic patients at the turn of the last century saw the building of a few large asylums which soon became overcrowded with the growth of the population. These asylums were the only service available to the mentally ill until 1959 when the trend to decentralise beg...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Psychiatric bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists 1992-10, Vol.16 (10), p.648-650 |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The need to confine and restrain psychotic patients at the turn of the last century saw the building of a few large asylums which soon became overcrowded with the growth of the population. These asylums were the only service available to the mentally ill until 1959 when the trend to decentralise began with the building of general hospital psychiatric units. |
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| ISSN: | 0955-6036 1472-1473 |
| DOI: | 10.1192/pb.16.10.648 |