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Development of community mental health nursing
Closure of the large mental hospitals and their replacement by smaller units attached to local district hospitals, and the development of day hospitals and community-care facilities had a marked impact on the practice of mental health nursing from the 1960s. May and Moore (1963) describe the work of two (later four) nurses seconded from Warlingham […]
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Health of the individual versus the community
Whether the main emphasis of mental health promotion should be on the health of the individual or that of the community can be debated. Within the WHO documents outlined earlier there is strong support for community level approaches and for measuring the success of actions in terms of community rather than individual level indicators. Working […]
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