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The Role of Affordances in the Deinstitutionalization of a Dysfunctional Health Management Information System in Kenya: An Identity Work Perspective

MIS Q., 2019
Improving the state of citizens’ health is an urgent priority in many low and middle income countries (LMICs), and health management information systems (HMIS) are widely seen as valuable tools for pursuing this priority.
Roberta Bernardi, Suprateek Sarker, Sundeep Sahay   +2 more
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Deinstitutionalization and Suicide

Crisis, 2003
Copyright © 2003 Hogrefe and Huber ; Robert D ...
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An overview of deinstitutionalization

New Directions for Mental Health Services, 1983
AbstractWe are now beginning to realize that treating the most severely impaired of our mentally ill citizens involves the thoughtful conceptualization of complex public policy problems.
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Mortality in the era of deinstitutionalization

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1983
The authors examined the 3 1/2-year mortality rate of 1,033 psychiatric patients who had received inpatient treatment during a 1-year period, using standardized mortality ratios to identify heightened risk. Deaths due to accidents or suicides and pneumonia occurred more frequently than expected. Deaths due to cancer occurred primarily among alcoholics;
Ann B. Goodman, Gary Haugland, Thomas J. Craig, Carole Siegel   +3 more
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Deinstitutionalization in Context

The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. Health and Society, 1979
Unlike other policy developments, which are regular and cumulative or even circular, reforms in mental health have been characterized by a peak-trough movement. Public responses continue to be very different from professional responses to achieving the practical limits of mental health.
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The demography of deinstitutionalization

New Directions for Mental Health Services, 1983
AbstractOnce defined as long‐term residents of psychiatric hospitals, the chronically mentally ill today are a heterogeneous population living in a variety of institutional and community settings.
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Deinstitutionalization in intellectual disabilities

Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 2007
The process of deinstitutionalization for intellectual disability services is at different stages across the world, varying from complete closure in Sweden to a vague hope in Taiwan. This review explores recent literature on deinstitutionalization and intellectual disabilities and focuses on papers published in academic journals mainly during 2006.Work
Beadle-Brown, Julie., Mansell, Jim., Kozma, Agnes.   +2 more
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Deinstitutionalization in the Absence of Consensus

Psychiatric Services, 1979
The process of deinstitutionalization began almost unnoticed in 1955 as state hospital populations started to decline, and it proceeded without adequate planning and without development of a social consensus. The inevitable result was strong criticism, severe personal dislocations, and, with rare exceptions, programmatic chaos.
Lee B. Macht, Donald J. Scherl
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Deinstitutionalization and Welfare Policies

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1985
Before America began creating a federally based welfare state in the 1930s, most publicly funded responses to social problems had an institutional bias. The ways in which the welfare programs initiated 50 years ago have helped to influence institutional trends, and are likely to continue doing so in the future, constitute the major focus of this ...
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Deinstitutionalization: A microcosmic perspective

The journal of mental health administration, 1982
Changes have taken place in caring for chronic patients due to deinstitutionalization, and these changes have affected the services rendered by the community mental health centers. Statistical data on dehospitalized patients treated in a community mental health center located in the South Central Bronx are examined to determine trends in service ...
Simari Cg, Baskin D
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