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Mental Health System Reform in Brazil: Innovation and Challenges for Sustainability

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In recent decades, Brazil has made substantial changes in its model of mental health care, through the gradual replacement of psychiatric hospitals with community-based services and new approaches to psychosocial care. These changes have been made possible by a context of political change and social mobilization; however, antagonistic forces have often threatened the progress of this reform. In order to share this experience, besides presenting the design and some results of the Brazilian psychiatric reform, historical, demographic, and political aspects will also be described in this chapter, aiming at a contextualization that favours the understanding of the advances, setbacks, and challenges of this process.

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Lociks de Araujo, C. (2019). Mental Health System Reform in Brazil: Innovation and Challenges for Sustainability. In: Okpaku, S. (eds) Innovations in Global Mental Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70134-9_9-1

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