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Public mental health services in Mumbai

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Ajanta Akhuly  and
Mrinmoyi Kulkarni
Ajanta Akhuly
Affiliation:
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India, email ajanta@hss.iitb.ac.in
Mrinmoyi Kulkarni
Affiliation:
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
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Abstract

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Mumbai, India's largest city, also has the distinction of being the most populous city in the world. The association between urbanisation and mental illness has been widely documented (Harpham & Blue, 1995, especially pp. 41–60). Mumbai is characterised by dense slums housing large migrant populations facing stressful lives. The state of publicly funded mental health facilities in Mumbai has special significance in this context, since they are the only resource available to a large economic ally vulnerable section of the population. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the public mental health services in Mumbai and to identify areas for improvement.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , October 2010 , pp. 97 - 99
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