For the last 40 years British Columbia has pursued a general policy of deinstitutionalizing patients from its one large psychiatric hospital, Riverview Hospital (RVH), to a variety of alternative, community-based living and care-giving arrangements. Th is policy has not unfolded in a systematic, linear fashion, but rather it has been punctuated by interruptions and delays as policy makers and m...

The degree of infection and consequent deaths have differed vastly, but Covid-19 pandemic has spared no country. focus this article is not to analyse India’s success in responding global rather draw lessons from experience for effective public management other fields development. There seems be an emerging consensus that civil liberties matters. In a health emergency, the primary responsibility...

A policy of "preventive detention" has recently been debated in the British Parliament. Alarmed by the high-profile criminal activities of people suspected of having dangerous severe personality disorder (DSPD), the government have made clear their intention to "indeterminately but reviewably detain" people with DSPD, after diagnosis by forensic psychiatrists, even if the individuals are yet to...

The coronavirus outbreak of 2019 (COVID-19) has arisen as a major challenge to global public health, necessitating immediate “action and resulting in unprecedented” transformation brief period time. This illness wreaked havoc on economies around the globe, infringed civil liberties, healthcare system India.