The Impact of Reducing Psychiatric Beds on Suicide Rates

The Impact of Reducing Psychiatric Beds on Suicide Rates

There has been ongoing debate regarding the impact of reductions in psychiatric beds on suicide rates, and the potential effect of reallocation of acute hospital funding to community-based mental health programs and services. Computer simulation offers significant value in advancing such debate by p...

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Main Authors: Jo-An Atkinson, Andrew Page, Adam Skinner, Mark Heffernan, Ante Prodan, Ian B. Hickie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
Subjects:
public mental health
suicide prevention
threshold effects
psychiatric beds
systems modeling and simulation
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00448/full

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