Historical development of the mental health services
- Author:
Salazar Ma. Consuelo I.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
- From:
The Philippine Journal of Psychiatry
1999;23(2):18-24
- CountryPhilippines
- Language:English
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Abstract:
The health services for the mentally ill are not all encompassing of mental health care. There has been a tremendous increase in the daily stresses of the lives of many Filipinos-fragmentation of families especially of overseas contract workers, rapid urbanization, natural and man-made disasters, worsening level of poverty, environmental mis-management, proliferation of illicit substances ans its attending social problems.
