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Involving the Private Sector in Community Psychiatry

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.3.363

The author offers one answer to the question of how psychiatry can expand its capacity for direct service if a national health insurance program removes the financial barrier to care. He describes the cooperative development of a central inpatient, day patient, and emergency service that eliminates the distinction between public and private care and makes maximum use of scarce professional manpower.

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