HLTA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: Labeling Theory, Medicalization, Psychoactive Drug
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Introduction: an illness care system in canada is a weakness in the health care system. Emphasis on community care is often interpreted to mean the establishment of a more balanced configuration of institutional and community-based services and supports of various types o. Community care refers to a further reduction in the use of long-term residential care facilities and expensive in- patient services in general hospitals o. Majority of mental health care costs are associated with the provision of general hospital-based treatment and care is taken an indicative of the failure of the deinstitutionalization movement o. Coordination of service planning and delivery planning and delivery. Accurate identification of needs is the foundation of service. Accurate assessment of needs allows for the development of individualized service delivery plans; essential for minimizing the possibility of unnecessarily institutionalizing individuals and inadvertently creating dependence, etc.
