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Published Online: June 1969

Community Mental Health and Comprehensive Health Service Programs for the Poor

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

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The Neighborhood Health Center is described as a program delivering family-oriented comprehensive health care of high quality to large groups of poor people. Because of the way services are conceived and organized, the center offers an opportunity to explore the impact of an approach to mental health and illness that focuses simultaneously on the neighborhood, the family, and the individual.

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American Journal of Psychiatry
Pages: 1666 - 1674
PubMed: 5770185

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Published in print: June 1969
Published online: 1 April 2006

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Director, Community Mental Health Services, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, Mass., and instructor in psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Administrator, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, Bethesda, Md.

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