National mental health programme envisaged integration of mental health care services into primary health care facilities. A house-to-house survey in 9 villages of a block situated near Lucknow city was conducted. A large number of villagers were aware of mental symptoms and indicated drugs as first choice of treatment. However, the majority preferred Government Hospitals and Private Doctors ov...

we typically think of acutely and chronically mentally ill patients as those who belong in psychiatric hospitals and the latter category of patients belonging in “regular” hospitals, but the intersection of physical and mental illness draws attention to important challenges for policy-makers and organizational leaders. this article illuminates some broad trends in the health status of people wi...

A proforma requesting information regarding various aspects of inpatient psychiatric services was sent to all centres. Information regarding bed strength, total number of patients discharged in the year 1977, their broad diagnostic category, status of admission, outcome of treatment and total number of inpatients on each day (for the year 1977) was collected. National Institute of Mental Health...

From Part I of the Ministry of Health's Report for the year ended 31st December 1954, we learn that since the initiation of the National Health Service in 1948, the percentage of the total capital expenditure on Hospitals allocated to those providing for mental illness and mental deficiency was 16%; 53.2% was spent on general and 9% on children's hospitals with from 4.8% to 0.5% on all the othe...