Mental Health Reforms in Europe: Israel's Rehabilitation in the Community of Persons With Mental Disabilities Law: Challenges and Opportunities.

Uri Aviram, Yigal Ginath, David Roe

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Abstract

This column describes an innovative, government-sponsored, countrywide mental health reform focusing on rehabilitation and community integration of persons with serious mental illness, which was enacted into law in Israel in 2000. The reform was part of the country's efforts to shift the locus of treatment and care from psychiatric institutions to the community. The authors review preliminary evidence of the impact of reform and offer cautionary notes regarding the future direction of its implementation. The decade after the law's enactment saw an impressive increase in rehabilitation services, a significant reduction in the number of psychiatric beds, and major changes in government budget allocations. The authors examine factors that may endanger the viability of reform and discuss lessons to be learned from the Israeli experience. (Psychiatric Services 63:110-112, 2012; doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.201100009).
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)110-112
Number of pages3
JournalPsychiatric Services
Volume63
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Feb 2012

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Psychiatry and Mental health

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