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标题：Housing, income support and mental health: Points of disconnection
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作者：Cheryl Forchuk ; Libbey Joplin ; Ruth Schofield 等
期刊名称：Health Research Policy and Systems
印刷版ISSN：1478-4505
电子版ISSN：1478-4505
出版年度：2007
卷号：5
期号：1
页码：14
DOI：10.1186/1478-4505-5-14
语种：English
出版社：BioMed Central
摘要：There exists a disconnection between evolving policies in the policy arenas of mental health, housing, and income support in Canada. One of the complexities associated with analysing the intersection of these policies is that federal, provincial, and municipal level policies are involved. Canada is one of the few developed countries without a national mental health policy and because of the federal policy reforms of the 1970s, the provincial governments now oversee the process of deinstitutionalization from the hospital to the community level. During this same period the availability of affordable housing has decreased as responsibility for social housing has been transfered from the federal government to the provincial and/or municipal levels of government. Canada also stands alone in terms of being a developed nation without national housing policy instead what is considered
关键词：Social Housing ; Provincial Government ; Affordable Housing ; Income Support ; Mental Health Policy