What policies and policy processes are needed to ensure that people with psychiatric disabilities have access to appropriate housing?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1026-1034

  Battams, Samantha ^a   Baum, Fran ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Collaboration; Housing; Inter sectoral; Mental illness; Policy; Psychiatric disability; Reform; Supported accommodation

Indexed keywords

DISABILITY; HEALTH POLICY; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; MENTAL HEALTH; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; POLICY REFORM; SOCIAL HOUSING; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HOUSING; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; COOPERATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MANAGEMENT; MENTAL PATIENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH CARE SECTOR; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOUSING; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MENTALLY DISABLED PERSONS; POLICY MAKING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77951221317     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.12.007     Document Type: Article

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