Reflections on the 40th anniversary of the US Community Mental Health Centers Act

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 662-667

  Feldman, Saul ^a  

^a United Behavioral Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LAW; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; UNITED STATES;

COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MENTAL DISORDERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0347354993     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1614.2003.01268.x     Document Type: Article

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