Research in Walk-In Psychiatric Services in General Hospitals
Abstract
Emergency treatment services in the general hospitals of urban centers have grown spectacularly in recent years, reflecting in effect a medical care vacuum for the slum poor. The medical and psychiatric needs of this population are known to be great, and a unique opportunity is presented to meet a changing pattern of medical-psychiatric demand. To do so, the emergency service as an accident accommodation must be replaced by its development as a primary clinic treating patients with illnesses associated with poverty.
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