tration in Psychiatric Hospitals under the National Health Service You will not, I think, feel insulted if I call you a mixed audience |vith many and varying points of view?partly 'ay and partly medical?but we all meet on common ground in our interest in the manysided activities of the Mental Health Service and ^ Particular the ever-expanding work of Mental hospitals. May I, at the outset, try ...

the majority of modern mental hospitals all over the world. In the mental hospitals of Ontario, 1,600 patients were given ' shock treatment ' during the years 1938-41, and the statistical report concludes, ' it is safe to assume that in consequence of the shock therapy work carried out during the years 1938-41, there were fewer patients on the books of the mental hospitals of Ontario during the...

Life expectancy for people with severe mental disorders is up to 25 years less in comparison to the general population, mainly due to diseases caused or worsened by smoking. However, smoking is usually a neglected issue in mental healthcare settings. The aim of this article is to describe a strategy to improve tobacco control in the hospital mental healthcare services of Catalonia (Spain). To b...

The transfer of control of mental institutions from local authorities to Regional Hospital Boards has, in most areas, been carried out with little difficulty or friction. In the majority of cases mental hospitals and M.D. institutions of 1,000 beds or more have been given Management Committees of their own, the personnel of which has been drawn from a wide field and in many cases includes a sat...

The mental health needs of older people being cared for within general hospitals and other acute healthcare settings has been specifically identified as a priority for improvement. Yet in reality little has changed. The Department of Health (DH) (2006) has highlighted how many challenges still exist in developing effective integrated care for this patient group and continues to respond with fur...

Mental health services in the Eastern Mediterranean Region are predominantly centralized and institutionalized, relying on scarce specialist manpower. This creates a major treatment gap for patients with common and disabling mental disorders and places an unnecessary burden on the individual, their family and society. Six steps for reorganization of mental health services in the Region can be o...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Inpatient pediatric mental health is a priority topic for national quality measurement and improvement, but nationally representative data on the patients admitted or their diagnoses are lacking. Our objectives were: to describe pediatric mental health hospitalizations at general medical facilities admitting children nationally; to assess which pediatric mental health ...

Lobotomy and leucotomy were used in Brazilian mental institutions from 1936 to 1956. Also called psycho-surgeries, they were operations that separated the right and left frontal lobes and pre-frontal lobes from the rest of the brains, aiming at modifying behavior or curing mental diseases. The technique, created by the Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz in 1935 and developed by Walter Freeman fr...

This study investigates the incidence of constipation in two representative mental institutions, and the effect, in one of the hospitals, of restricting the use of laxatives to only one drug, namely, standardized senna (Senokot). The remarkable potentiality of Senokot for long-term re-educative programmes is reflected in the reduction from 44% of 210 patients receiving various laxatives regular...