title: Community Mental Health Care: new services from old systems.
abstract: An integrated service system for the mentally disabled must encompass federally supported community centers and state-supported mental hospitals. The vision, of course, has been elusive. Rational coordination and collaboration will be politically difficult but economically necessary to achieve a just--and sane--society.
mesh_terms: D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000639:trends*; D003688:Deinstitutionalization; D006291:Health Policy; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006783:Hospitals, State / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States