'It's a small world': mental health policy under welfare capitalism since 1945

Article Abstract:

An overview is presented on the downsizing of mental health care services as part of the general reduction of welfare regimes under capitalism since the end of World War II. Recommendations to counter the negative effects of downsizing, drawn from Italian and Swedish policy models, include a trend toward greater self-determination in health and critical assessment of treatment regimes.

Services, Psychiatric services, Mental health services, Welfare, Public assistance

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Community participation and citizenship in British health care planning: narratives of power and involvement in the changing welfare state

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Community participation in health care planning in Britain is discussed, with a focus on the connection between political rhetoric and health authorities' relationship with local communities. Topics include the new discourse of community participation, mediation of official discourse, concepts of community and local citizenship, active management, and the welfare system.

Social aspects, Political aspects, Health planning, Public participation, Welfare state, Health services administration, Citizenship

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Civil commitment due to mental illness and dangerousness: the union of law and psychiatry within a treatment-control system

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An examination is presented on dangerousness as a legal criterion for the commitment of mentally ill persons. It is posited that mental illness has become synonymous with dangerousness, and control and treatment have emerged from this correlation.

Canada, Interpretation and construction, Laws, regulations and rules, Mentally ill persons, Mentally ill, Community psychiatric services, Community mental health services, Danger (Law), Insane, Criminal and dangerous, Criminally insane persons, Mental health law

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