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Trends in the development of psychiatric services in india

National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bangalore, India

Over the past five decades, services for the mentally ill in India have steadily improved. From a predominantly mental hospital based service, provision has now moved to general hospitals and primary health centres. A variety of factors have contributed to changes in the quality of services. This paper briefly reviews the changes and discusses the relevance of some of them.