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The Sultanate of Oman: an experiment in community care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Rustom Burjorjee  and
Samir Al-Adawi
Samir Al-Adawi
Affiliation:
Department of Behaviour Sciences & Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Sultan Qaboos University, PO Box 32485, Al-Khod, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
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An experiment in community care, training Omanis with bachelor degrees in social work, psychology and education to act as psychiatric care givers in the community, is currently being developed in the Sultanate of Oman. This experiment is based on the Alma-Ata declaration to achieve Health For All by the Year 2000 (WHO, 1978) and WHO aspirations to move psychiatric care back into the community (WHO, 1990), and the fact that in many developing countries psychiatric care has remained on the fringe due to lack of resources and manpower.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 10 , October 1992 , pp. 646 - 648
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1992

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