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Mental health care in China: review on the delivery and policy issues in 1949–2009 and the outlook for the next decade

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 August 2013

Keqing Li ,
Xiuli Sun ,
Yong Zhang ,
Guang Shi  and
Arnulf Kolstad
Keqing Li
Affiliation:
Psychiatry Department, Hebei Province Mental Health Center, Baoding, Hebei Province, China
Xiuli Sun
Affiliation:
Psychiatry Department, Hebei Province Mental Health Center, Baoding, Hebei Province, China
Yong Zhang
Affiliation:
Psychiatry Department, Hebei Province Mental Health Center, Baoding, Hebei Province, China
Guang Shi*
Affiliation:
Policy and Regulation Department, Ministry of Health, Beijing, China
Arnulf Kolstad
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, National University of Nature Science and Technology, Stockholm, Norway
*
Dr Guang Shi, Policy and Regulation Department, Ministry of Health, 1 Xizhimenwai South Road, Beijing 100044, China. Tel: +861068792692 E-mail: shiguang@moh.gov.cn
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Abstract

Using qualitative and quantitative methodologies, delivery models and policies on mental health care in China during the period of 1949–2009 were reviewed and characteristics of different stages of the mental health-care development were also analysed in this period. Recent studies demonstrate that mental health-care services in China are being transformed from large mental hospital-based pattern to community-based pattern in the past six decades. Combining the international experiences with current strategies and situations of Chinese health care, we provided the outlook for mental health-care services in the next decade in China. In addition, we proposed relevant policy recommendations that mainly focus on the equity and availability of mental health-care services with the purpose of promoting community-based health services.

Keywords

Chinamental health carerecommendationsreformservice and policy
Type
Review Article
Information
Acta Neuropsychiatrica , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , June 2014 , pp. 134 - 145
Copyright
Copyright © Scandinavian College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2013 

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