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Title: Humanizing mental health care: some lessons from Australia
Author/Creator: Hazelton, Mike
Institution: The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery
Description: In this paper I want to describe the history of the development of mental health services in Australia since colonial times, before providing an outline and critique of selected aspects of recent mental health reform in that country. The paper discusses the main priorities of current Australian mental health policy, and the extent to which the policy direction has sought to address concerns for improving the quality of services while at the same time safeguarding the citizenship entitlements and human rights of the mentally ill. A number of lessons can be gleaned from the recent Australian experience of mental health reform, and these are outlined in preliminary form in the concluding section of the paper.
Relation: 2nd Asian International Conference on Humanized Health Care (AIC-HHC 2009). Proceedings of the 2nd Asian International Conference on Humanized Health Care (AIC-HHC 2009) (Nanning, China 12-13 October, 2009) p. 38-42
Relation: http://210.36.99.20/hlxy/confen/index.htm
Date: 2009
Publisher: AIC-HHC 2009 Organisers
Keyword(s): mental health services; Australia; mental health reform
Resource Type: conference paper
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/931076

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