title: Dehospitalization of psychiatric care in The Netherlands.
abstract: What are the major changes in the Dutch mental health system? In this article some main lines of the de jure mental health policy are compared with de facto developments in the period 1970-1982, utilizing data from a national inpatient case register.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003688:Deinstitutionalization; D005260:Female; D006291:Health Policy; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000639:trends*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009426:Netherlands; D010343:Patient Admission; D010359:Patient Readmission; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital