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Mental Health Services in British Columbia: A Problem of Quality Control
Author(s) -
Hayes E. W. Ted
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
perspectives in psychiatric care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6163
pISSN - 0031-5990
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6163.1992.tb00359.x
Subject(s) - mental health , control (management) , quality (philosophy) , health services , nursing , psychology , business , psychiatry , public administration , medicine , political science , environmental health , economics , management , population , philosophy , epistemology
Highly centralized control of the British Columbia Mental Health Services has undermined the effectiveness and efficiency of mental health services, according to the author. While quality control policies based upon these assumptions may be fiscally elegant, they are costly and clinically counterproductive.