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Mental-Health Policy in Ontario Compared to Policy for Persons With Developmental Handicaps

Publication: Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
September 1990

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It is generally agreed that policy for developmentally handicapped people in Ontario has been more successful than mental-health policy. The reasons for this are explained in terms of nine key variable which have a major impact on policy: language, money, pressure groups, the press, opposition political parties, the bureaucracy, the minister of health, the professions, and the law. No ranking of these variables is attempted because, it is argued, is it impossible to capture the flow of politics by establishing a hierarchy of influences.

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On admet généralement que la politique pour les personnes handicapées intellectuelles a été mieux réussie que la politique pour la santé mentale. La raison pour cela est expliquéc à partir de neuf variables-clés ayant un impact majeur sur le développement d'une politique: la langue, l'argent, les groupes de pression, la presse, les partis politiques d'opposition, la bureaucratie, le ministre de la santé, les professions, et la loi. Ces variables ne sont pas ordonnées entre elles parce que, avance-t-on, il est impossible de bien saisir les processus lies politiques en établissant une hiérarchie de ces influences.

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cover image Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Volume 9Number 2September 1990
Pages: 163 - 176

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Version of record online: 29 April 2009

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Harvey G. Simmons

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