Global mental health: a failure of humanity
The LancetPublished 1 August 2009Open access
Arthur Kleinman
Citations235
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Abstract
In the USA, the world's sliding superpower, the prisons are the functioning mental-health-care system. Somewhere between a third and half of all the homeless people in American cities suffer from mental illness. Yet balancing this abysmal record, mental health care in the USA is finally receiving renewed attention and resources aimed at closing the gap in parity with the rest of health care. The worst abuses of the mental-health-care system are undergoing near constant, if unsustained, reform and patients' rights are being better, if still not well, protected.
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