Developing and Evaluating Rural Alternative Care

摘要

The aims of the project were: (1) develop, describe and evaluate the structure, inputs, processes and outcomes of an organized and integrated network on nonclinical services to supplement the clinical mental health services of a mental health center; (2) to conduct a comparison study of the outcomes and the costs of treating one half of a selected group of mental health center admissions by the standard clinical care approaches as compared with using nonclinical alternative care methods for the secondf half of these patients. It is feasible (in three country rural programs) to develop a network of nonclinical alternative services to supplement traditional services. Such alternative services were judged acceptable.