Mental health system in China: history, recent service reform and future challenges

Liu, Jin; Ma, Hong; He, Yanling; Xie, Bin; Xu, Yifeng; Tang, Hongyu; Li, Ming; Hao, Wei; Wang, Xiangdong; Zhang, Mingyuan; H. Ng, Chee; Goding, Margaret; Fraser, Julia; Herrman, Helen; Chiu, Helen; Sau Man Chan, Sandra; Chiu, Edmond; Yu, Xin

doi:10.1002/j.2051-5545.2011.tb00059.x

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Mental health system in China: history, recent service reform and future challenges

Published in World Psychiatry • Oct 1, 2011

Authors:

Jin Liu

Hong Ma

Yanling He

Abstract

The first officially documented management of the mentally ill in China was in the Tang Dynasty (618–907 AD), when homeless widows, orphans and the mentally ill were cared for in the Bei Tian Fang, a type of charity facility administrated by monks 1. The first western style psychiatric hospital for ...

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Medicine

China

Mental health

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