Mental Health Reform in Israel
Author: Avner Elizur, Yehuda Baruch, Yaakov Lerner, Mordechai Shani
Policy Research
December 01, 2004
In the past decades, there has been a movement of deinstitutionalization of those suffering from mental illness.
Israel, like many other countries in the world, is in need of mental health reform. Wise implementation of reform will require an understanding of the societal processes as well as an accommodation to professional attitudes.
This paper is in Hebrew only.