Analysis of a 1,090-household survey in metropolitan Toronto, Ontario, shows that community mental health facilities generate externality fields that include such effects as fears of the negative impact on property values, traffic volumes, and residential satisfaction. There are also strongly neutral ...
This paper describes the development and testing of a model to predict aggregate neighborhood responses to facilities in Toronto in terms of ecological, demographic, and socioeconomic variables. Three composite neighborhood factors—transience, scarcity of children, and economic status—are the strongest ...
Talent in the Mental Health and Addiction space is often reluctant to move. Health care facilities, governmental agencies, non-profits and other organizations have a growing need for qualified professionals. At the same time, employees are looking for more flexibility in their work schedules and gre...
The move to community-based mental health care in North America and Europe has meant that the reactions of residents in host neighborhoods have considerable importance for the planning and location of facilities. This paper describes the development and testing of a model to predict aggregate neighbor...
Within the mental health facilities, the interRAI instrument was administered as part of standard of care; however, within the youth justice sample, the instrument was completed as part of a research study which may have had some impact on the results of the study (e.g., self-selected sample...
Thus far, seven health facilities (including three mental health facilities and five general hospitals with mental health wings) have been assessed using the QualityRights assessment toolkit [18, 50] with service level transformation plans developed to address gaps identified in the assessment, which ...
The 2007–2008 Canadian Community Health Survey was a population-representative survey of ~130,000 individuals 12 y and older, excluding full-time members of the Canadian Forces and those living on First Nations Reserves or Crown Lands or in prisons or care facilities. The presence of chronic h...
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Craft, A., 1982, Health, Hygiene and Sex Education for Mentally Handicapped Children, Adolescents and Adults: A Review of Audio Visual Resources, Health Education Council, London. Google Scholar Craft, M., and Craft, A., 1982, 2nd Edition, “Sex and the Mentally Handicapped,” Routledge an...
s need for mental health care to be independently valued and explored [56].In addition, the PCPs thought that the public believes that specialized mental health services were not readily available in all health facilities [55], and they find it challenging to communicate to the mentally ill ...