title: Planning mental health services: background and key issues.
abstract: Deinstitutionalization in Canada produced a shift in locus of care from provincial psychiatric hospitals to general hospital psychiatric units. As a result of this approach, a number of key planning issues have emerged that most provinces are attempting to address.
authors.affiliation: University of Toronto.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wasylenki
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Goering
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Macnaughton
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006285:Health Planning; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000150:complications