Deinstitutionalisation, imprisonment and homelessness
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Deinstitutionalisation does not increase imprisonment or homelessness.
Closing long-stay psychiatric beds remains contentious. The review by Winkler et al in this issue examines 23 studies of deinstitutionalisation for the outcomes of people discharged from psychiatric hospitals after an admission of 1 year or longer. The majority of these studies identified no cases of homelessness, incarceration or suicide after discharge from hospital.
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.209.4.349