Forty years without mental hospitals in Italy

Abstract In 1978 Italy implemented Law Number 180, the reform law that blocked all new admissions to public mental hospitals. After 40 years without mental hospitals, we aim at understanding the consequences of the Italian reform in terms of mental health care facility and staff availability. We com...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Corrado Barbui, Davide Papola, Benedetto Saraceno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-07-01
Series:International Journal of Mental Health Systems
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13033-018-0223-1