The research problem related to the mental health welfare policy and support system in Japan

This paper is describing the history of mental health welfare system routed from the psychiatric patient protective law in 1900 and the law of psychiatric hospital as well as the current mental health welfare policy and diverse social support systems. It is indicated that there is a lack of research regarding to the comprehensive evaluation for the community mental health welfare services. The research related to the social support is only focusing on the individual support, clinical report, or problem statement. Therefore, the author discussed that study of mental health welfare policy should be aimed at effectiveness of the social support system through analyzing community environmental factors for people with mental illness.

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本文データは山口大学医学会の許諾に基づきCiNiiから複製したものである