Mental health service delivery in Ontario, Canada [electronic resource]

Mental health policy-making in Ontario has a long history of frustrated attempts to move from a hospital and physician-based tradition to a coordinated system with greater emphasis on community-based mental health care. This study examines policy legacies associated with the introduction of psychiatric hospitals in the 1850s and the introduction of public health insurance (Medicare) in the 1960s in Ontario; and their effect on subsequent mental …