Strategies implemented but goals not attained. Some comments on an evaluation of the Swedish mental health services.
Is the development of Swedish psychiatry a success or not? Available information allows different answers to this question. Valid knowledge would demand psychiatric health service research on a much larger scale and with considerably higher ambitions than hitherto. Strong arguments can be raised about the need for such research to avoid that psychiatry will remain a medical wasteland in which confused policy makers will allocate less interest and money than ever.
Westrin
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Dept of Social Medicine, Uppsala University.
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