Schizophrenia mortality rates appeared to decrease from the mid-1950s to early 1970s, perhaps due to the development of antipsychotic drugs and deinstitutionalization of persons with serious mental illness — a shift away from crowded psychiatric facilities to community - based treatments. (sciencedaily.com)
The bill proposes 40 access - enhancing measures, many of them connected to mental health laws, action plans and strategies that have been developed in recent years to help Quebec deal with the legal and social fallouts from deinstitutionalization. (canadianlawyermag.com)
It led to a national soul search on the subject, a broad, continuing deinstitutionalization program in New York and elsewhere, and to the benchmark federal Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act of 1980. (timesunion.com)