Hi
I was surprised by the high number of beds for the USA given all the concerns
expressed about finding beds for people with psychiatric problems. When I went
to the original source cited at the following link (the WHO Atlas for 2005), I
found quite different values for number of
Hello again (last time today!)
I went to WHO site for psychiatric beds per 10,000 population and extracted
Europe + Canada + USA into SPSS. Below is ranking from high to low. USA falls
in the middle of the pack of these select countries, 26 out of 42. Many other
parts of the world have far
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Hello again (last time today!)
I went to WHO site for psychiatric beds per 10,000 population and extracted
Europe + Canada
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We should keep in mind that certain countries,
particularly those within the former soviet
sphere use or have use
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:15:27 -0700, Jim Clark wrote:
Hi
I'm struck by the last sentence in Mike's quote from the panel. Is it
really the case that disempowerment is what leads people (in general or
just those with mental illness?) to be violent? How is that any less an
over-generalization and
Hi
Mike is correct to point out the more complete presentation in the article
itself. I was just responding to the last comment emphasizing disempowerment
in his post.
On the matter of money changes everything, I was curious about the state of
mental health funding and services in the USA
The NY Times has a sad story about the death of a young woman
who worked in a group home for people with mental illness.
One of the residents, a man suffering from schizophrenia, killed
her. The focus of the article, however, is not so much about
the death but how this situation could occur,
Hi
I'm struck by the last sentence in Mike's quote from the panel. Is it
really the case that disempowerment is what leads people (in general or
just those with mental illness?) to be violent? How is that any less an
over-generalization and stigmatizing about poor people than asserting
that
