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Time for governments to act on mental health care.(Foreword)
In 1993 the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission released the report of its National Inquiry into the Human Rights of People with a Mental Illness (the Burdekin Report). This followed agreement by all Australian Health Ministers in 1992 to a National Mental Health Strategy (www.mmha. org.au/Policy/Australian MentalHealthPolicy).
The National Inquiry found that although the movement towards community care and mainstreaming of mental health services had reduced the stigma associated with psychiatric care, in general governments had not redirected the money saved by deinstitutionalization into mental health and related services in the community.
Families and carers were found to be badly overstretched and insufficiently supported.
Specialist services for the many thousands of Australians affected both by mental illness and some other form of disability were found to be almost non-existent.
The Inquiry recommended improved crisis facilities, accommodation services and other community mental health services, and measures to promote improved employment opportunities for people affected by mental illness.
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