This paper tests for a relationship between the size of the population institutionalized in state and county mental hospitals and the size of state prison populations. The analysis exploits inter-state differences in the pace of deinstitutionalization to identify this relationship. While mental hospital populations declined nation-wide, decreases in hospitalization rates vary considerably from ...

abstract background: mental workload is a general concept in the literature of ergonomics and human factors that are affected by external working demands, environmental, psychological and organizational factors, organizational and mental abilities. the aim of this study was to assess the mental workload and its impact on musculoskeletal disorders among nurses employed at different parts of the ...

Objectives: Explores significant differences in types of mental health facilities accessed by and services received by elderly in the United States as compared with the total population, how frequently chronic disease management needs are met, and variance by state. Methods: Secondary analysis of the National Mental Health Services Survey (N-MHSS), 2010, of 15,562 facilities in the United State...

The shift toward greater use of general hospitals for the treatment of mental disorders reflects the tendency to admit patients with the most serious diagnoses to psychiatric hospitals. However, admissions to both types of institution now tend to involve more serious cases than in early 1980s. To some extent, the increase in the number of patient-days provided for mental disorders, despite decl...