In defense of deinstitutionalization.
Milbank Mem Fund Q Health Soc, 1979;57(4):461-79.
PMID: 114876
Abstract
Political and economic decisions contributing to deinstitutionalization had widespread support from psychiatrists, social reformers, and civil libertarians. The fortuitous advent of Medicaid and SSI abetted movement out of institutions, but these federal programs impede efforts to reform remaining state hospitals--yet progress has been achieved.
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Cost-Benefit Analysis; Deinstitutionalization; Health Policy; Hospitals, Psychiatric; Hospitals, State; Mental Health Services; Public Assistance; United States
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