HST211H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Pharmaceutical Industry, Centre For Addiction And Mental Health
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About 60% of people experiencing mental health will visit family doctor. Cognitive behavioural therapy are most effective for individuals experiencing mild to medium depression. Cognitive behavioural therapy: approach that teaches individuals on how to cope with their distress. 70% of health costs funded by government, 30% private. From 1969 (advent of medicare) to 1977 federal government provided 50% if care funding, now about 21% Historically speaking, the government never invested in community based projects. Mental health and addiction services have been largely excluded from federal funding. Services and community services were heavily excluded; budget was heavily spended on jails and asylums. Asylums were a provincial responsibility of the 19th century- accounted for 75% of province of. Over 168,000 asylum beds developed across the country by provinces by 1959. Dominion mh grants provided by federal government in 1940s and 50s to help provinces develop general hospital psych units. 69,000 psych beds closed between 1959 and 69.
