The importance of user participatory approach for successful implementation of developmental programmes h a s been widely appreciated in many areas of social development including health care. In this context, we report on a user group meeting conducted by a General Hospital Psychiatry Unit of a Teaching Hospital in Kerala. All inpatients who utllised the services of this administrative framework of a medical model. unlike the previous strategy of segregation in asylums.
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