Biomedical subjects

R L Okin

Publications and source records attributed to R L Okin.

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PubMed1982

State hospitals in the 1980s.

The economic and political forces of the 1980s will have a profound effect on state hospitals. The total number of these facilities is likely to decline, although their utilization will probably remain high. Their staffing will most likely remain low and their total budgets relatively stable. The extent of judicial advocacy that characterized the role of the courts in the last decade will be somewhat diminished in the 1980s. Most state hospitals will be forced by the insufficiency of community alternatives to provide primary and secondary care as well as tertiary care to be catchment areas they serve.

Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders↗

PubMed1978

The future of state mental health programs for the chronic psychiatric patient in the community.

The author explores the problems facing the chronic psychiatric patient in the community and discussed the response of federal and state governments to these problems. Errors of the past and present are delineated and corrective actions are suggested for the future. Finally, it is argued that if society is able to meet the challenge posed by the chronic psychiatric patient in the community it will simultaneously have set up mechanisms to solve the problems of other disabled and disadvantaged groups of people as well.

Chronic Disease↗