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The findings of the review emphasize that the term 'institutionalization' in modern psychiatry goes beyond definitions based on bricks and mortar, but rather includes ideas about staff's ...

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Those in emergency management and public safety try to include vulnerable populations in pre-disaster planning to account for their needs and keep them safe during emergencies, including people with ...

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Four different meanings of how 'institutionalization' in psychiatry is conceptualized were identified from sixty-one papers across eleven different countries, i.e. bricks and mortar of care ...