Police contact with mental illness in mid-sized city. (Inner City Health).Trends in police contact with persons with serious mental illness in a mid-size Canadian city was the subject of a study reported by Lisa Heslop, Consortium for Applied Research and Evaluation in Mental Health, The University of Western Ontario Western is one of Canada's leading universities, ranked #1 in the Globe and Mail University Report Card 2005 for overall quality of education.[2] It ranked #3 among medical-doctoral level universities according to Maclean's Magazine 2005 University Rankings. , London, Ontario. Due to provincial decisions to close or downsize Downsize Reducing the size of a company by eliminating workers and/or divisions within the company. Notes: When a company downsizes, it is attempting to find ways to improve efficiency and increase profitability. It is sometimes referred to as trimming the fat. psychiatric hospitals psychiatric hospital n. A hospital for the care and treatment of patients affected with acute or chronic mental illness. Also called mental hospital. , increasing numbers of patients with serious mental illness are being discharged to community care. The study of patterns of contacts between police and people with serious mental illness in southwestern Ontario Southwestern Ontario is a region of the Canadian province of Ontario, centred on the city of London. It extends north to south from the Bruce Peninsula on Lake Huron to the Lake Erie shoreline, and east to south-west roughly from Kitchener to Windsor. confirms that police officers do not have the resources to appropriately assist this population. Research supports that most of the needs of the seriously mentally ill are best met outside a hospital setting. However, appropriate resources need to be in place in the community to ensure that this population receives the best possible range of treatment options. |
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