[Analysis of the activities of the Biella Mental Health Service during the 3-year period 1980-1982].
An account is presented of the work of the Biella local health unit in the province of Vercelli, Piedmont. Attention is drawn to the difficulties met with in applying the latest enactments concerning psychiatry. Delay in application of the health reforms is having an adverse effect on the operation of the new psychiatric care structures. Psychiatry is finding it difficult to become an integral part of the other health services. This is clear from the requests for consultation made to department psychiatrists at Biella Hospital. There has been an increase in applications for admission and compulsory treatment in the three-year period under review. In particular, there is the difficulty of taking on a small number of patients from the previous structures. By contrast, there has been a change for the better in the relationship between the community and the outpatient service. This relationship is becoming stable and is beginning to acquire a psychotherapeutic structure.
D003155:Community Mental Health Centers / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D007558:Italy; D007882:Legislation, Hospital; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000592:standards*
Analisi dell'attività del Servizio di Salute Mentale di Biella nel triennio 1980-1982.