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The Mental Illness Needs Index

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2014

Gyles Glover
Gyles Glover*
Affiliation:
Department of Health, Wellington House 133-155, Waterloo Road, London SE1 8UG, and PRiSM and Section of Community Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, UK
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It is well known that the prevalence of mental illness is not uniformly distributed. This has practical consequences for the planning, financing and evaluation of public mental health services. Areas likely to have greater morbidity are likely to require more resources. The question is by how much? This essay describes a method devised in the context of the English health service to provide practical help to mental health planners faced with this type of question.

Type
Section A: Assessing Needs for Mental Health Services
Information
Epidemiologia e psichiatria sociale. Monograph Supplement , Volume 6 , Issue S1: Monograph Supplement 1: Making Rational Mental Health Services , April 1997 , pp. 13 - 20
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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