Microcredit typically refers to petty collateral-free credits given to groups of poor members in the society for their socioeconomic emancipation. It is claimed to be an effective tool for enhancing income of the poor primarily through creation of selfemployment opportunities for them in a variety of small economic activities. However, in this survey of microcredit borrowers in Bangladesh it is...

to Broadcasting House and there underwent extensive questioning. These viewers did not know on arrival what the nature of the meeting would be, though they were aware that the evening would end with a general discussion of programmes. There were approximately 180 viewers in all, meeting in four groups of about 45 each. Once in the test room, group members were told of the purpose of the first h...

deterred on this account from reading this remarkable book which gives an entertaining picture of American mental hospital practice. The style is tortuous and ponderous. When the authors want to say there are both male and female patients they write. "Patient status was no respecter of sex" and describe somebody who volunteered to play the accordion thus, "One visitor who played the accordion d...

THE Northern Ireland Mental Health Act of 1948 was enlightened and progressive when it became law, and it is a measure of the speed of change in recent times that it was outmoded in thirteen years, being repealed and replaced by the Mental Health Act (Northern Ireland) 1961. "But if the purposes of the new Act (the English Act of 1959) are to be achieved, it will be necessary to consider weakne...

This paper focuses on the critical role of nursing in implementing a behaviour plan in a psychiatric hospital. The plan was implemented with a 40-year-old man with a long history of aggression towards others and self. The study used a single-subject research design with baseline and intervention phases (AB Design). Data were collected on (1) frequency of incidents of aggression towards others a...

An initial survey was carried out in Glenside Hospital in 1960 because it was felt that "a large proportion of all patients under care in mental hospitals show no serious disturbance of behaviour, and their retention is determined largely by social factors."' That survey was followed four years later by a similar review,2 which recommended a precise overall national plan for the future of menta...

Background In 2004, two independent working groups in Germany and Switzerland compared the frequency and duration of coercive measures in standard psychiatric care across 14 psychiatric hospitals in Germany and Switzerland. The objective was to establish an international knowledge transfer process in order to reduce the frequency and duration of coercive measures on a long-term basis to an exte...

There is one disturbing similarity between the two very dissimilar hospitals. In both cases industrial relations have been complicated and embittered by a degree of interunion competition that seems to have left management virtually powerless to effect improvements in the departments and sections concerned. _011|Rainhill is a 1550-bedded psychiatric hospital in the St Helens and Knowsley AHA, m...

"semi-welfare state" (p. 29 )-reflects his historicist bias that events should unfold toward goals set by historians. To Katz, Western Europe provides models of "complete welfare states". Like most ambitious books, this one has flaws. The first four chapters are mainly about a few communities in Eastern states, rather than about America. Because he excludes health services (except public mental...

own views?-which are implicitly if not explicitly revealed in almost eveiy chapter?as to the need for mental nursing to be looked upon as a religious vocation rather than a professional career, and she feels it to be significant that in mental hospitals where the nursing and administrative control is in the hands of Religious Orders (usually in such cases the Rev. Mother is entirely responsible...