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Community mental health services in Malaysia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Mohd. Razali Salleh
Mohd. Razali Salleh*
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Lecturer in Psychiatry, School of Medical Sciences, University Sains Malaysia, 15990 Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia
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The need to confine and restrain psychotic patients at the turn of the last century saw the building of a few large asylums which soon became overcrowded with the growth of the population. These asylums were the only service available to the mentally ill until 1959 when the trend to decentralise began with the building of general hospital psychiatric units.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 10 , October 1992 , pp. 648 - 650
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1992

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