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Jamaica Gleaner Profiles in Medicine
published: Wednesday | February 5, 2003

Madness downsized - phasing out Bellevue Hospital
Dip them Bedward, dip them, dip them in the healing stream... B ACK IN April 1921, Bedward, the popular black activist from August Town, St. Andrew, was committed to Bellevue Hospital and he never again saw the light of day.

WHO's mental health policy
GOVERNMENTS, AS the ultimate stewards of mental health, need to set policies ­ within the context of general health systems and financing arrangements ­ that will protect and improve the mental health of the population.


The plan for mental healt h
THE ADVENT of newer, more effective medication together with advances in neuro and behavioural sciences have facilitated a shift, internationally, in the treatment of persons with mental illness.




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