Predicting Community Reaction to Mental Health Facilities

Social rejection of the mentally ill: A replication study of public attitude

“…Research focusing on these issues suggested that the mentally ill achieve greater social integration in certain types of neighborhoods (Trute and Segal 1976) and that these same types of neighborhoods were characterized by more positive public attitudes (Taylor et al 1984).…”

Progress Report: Mental Health in an Urban World

“…The first has been to adopt the problem-oriented approach, with a more or less random dip into a theory/methods "bran-tub" in search of suitable ways to investigate the problem in question (Lee, 1979). The other strategy, recently described by Dear (1984), has been typified by medical geographers (mainly in the United States) who seem to be stuck in the "well-worn ruts" (p. 8) defined by a small number of analytical traditions. In the health services planning field Dear describes three such "ruts,"e.g.,: disease ecology, access to health care, and administrative organization.…”

“…It will be clear as we proceed that Herbert's schema is being used mainly for purposes of clarity, and that many of the studies reviewed could be classified at more than one, if not all three, levels. In addition, as Dear (1984) has warned, we are likely to find that most of what has been done to date will fall into the last two and especially the last category. By necessity then, this review provides a skeletal structure upon which we might hope to see more broadly based geographical studies in future years.…”

“…In theory we could expect to find two branches of study in this category. One is largely Marxist inspired, working from the assumption that social problems emerge when certain subpopulations present a threat to production and reproduction in the capitalist system (Dear, 1981(Dear, , 1984. As Lee (1979) has written:…”

“…The first of these is the area of cross-national comparisons to investigate different sets of macro-level forces, which has been conducted successfully in the health and health care fields (Navarro, 1977;Doyal, 1979;Eyles and Woods, 1983;Joseph and Phillips, 1984;Kirby, 1984), and in the field of alcohol studies (Makela et al, 1981). A second area involves a focus on the origin and evolution of health-related problems and health care, as recommended by Dear (1984). To date there have been very few examples, although the work by Knox, Bohland, andShumsky (1983, 1984), by Cotter and Patrick (1981), and by Smith (1984b) has suggested some avenues.…”