Attitudes to Psychiatry in the General Hospital

Challenges in General Hospital Psychiatry

The liberation of psychiatry from the confines of the traditional mental hospital has been hailed as one of the roost significant steps in the progress of psychiatry during the second half of the twentieth century. This has, no doubt, benefitted the patient by providing treatment facilities in his own community, removing the social stigma associated wi th hospitalization, reducing the damaging ...

General hospital psychiatry in the Netherlands.

General Hospital Psychiatry: Psychiatric Certificates

A retrospective analysis of 70 cases referred for certification revealed that they accounted for less then 1% of total cases. Criminal cases constituted 50% and the rest were service and civil cases. There was no psychiatric problem detectable in 10% of the cases; 7% were for travel concessions. All the certificates issued in service matters were in favor of employees.

Emergence of General Hospital Psychiatry

Psychiatry services are being initiated and delivered in the general hospitals. Though this is being achieved at a slow pace, nevertheless, the trend is being set. Community programmes lor the delivery of psychiatric services are also being planned. The delivery of mental health care services at the primary health centres and the peripheral areas would perhaps be strengthened it the role of Gen...

Annals of General Hospital Psychiatry

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