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. 2010 Jul 1;7(3):64-67.
eCollection 2010 Jul.

Mental health profile of Greece

George Christodoulou  1 , Dimitris Ploumpidis  2 , Nikos Christodoulou  3 , Dimitris Anagnostopoulos  4
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Mental health profile of Greece

George Christodoulou et al. Int Psychiatry. .

Abstract

Since the mid-1980s, a profound reform in the organisation of mental health provision has been taking place in Greece (Madianos & Christodoulou, 2007; Christodoulou, 2009). The aim has been to modernise the outdated system of care (Christodoulou, 1970), which was based on inpatient asylum-like treatment, the beginning of which can be roughly dated to the second half of the 19th century (Christodoulou et al, 2010).

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