Reinstitutionalisation in mental health care: comparison of data on service provision from six European countries.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To establish whether reinstitutionalisation is occurring in mental health care and, if so, with what variations between western European countries.

Design

Comparison of data on changes in service provision.

Setting

Six European countries with different traditions of mental health care that have all experienced deinstitutionalisation since the 1970s--England, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden.

Outcome measures

Changes in the number of forensic hospital beds, involuntary hospital admissions, places in supported housing, general psychiatric hospital beds, and general prison population between 1990-1 and 2002-3.

Results

Forensic beds and places in supported housing have increased in all countries, whereas changes in involuntary hos

SUBMITTER: Priebe S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC544427 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature