Alternative to Mental Hospital Treatment: III. Social Cost

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1980, Pages 409-412

  Test, Mary Ann ^a   Stein, Leonard I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH CARE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; THERAPY;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; CRIME; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FAMILY; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMAN; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGE; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0018820563     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1980.01780170051005     Document Type: Article

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