2021, Number 1
Revista de Ciencias Médicas de la Habana 2021; 28 (1)
Historical review of ''Crisanto Betancourt Hernández'' Psychiatric Hospital of Mayabeque
Rodríguez CAE, Pérez VMA, Zamora TL
Language: Spanish
References: 7
Page: 142-152
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ABSTRACT
Care to the mental ill patients has been centered at psychiatric hospitals, important axis of the treatment for mental diseases. With the reorientation of Psychiatry, the psychiatric hospitals develop a community work coordinated between Primary and Secondary Health Cares ¨Crisanto Betancourt Hernández¨ Psychiatric Hospital, represents this type of entity, so it motivated to explore its historical evolution. References were obtained by interviews to founders, neighbors, exploration of documents, pictures, acknowledgements and awards. It is confirmed that the hospital has improved in the quality of services, transformation of new installations; reduction of beds according to the development of the reorientation of the specialty, the communitarian projection in the first level of Care; the formation of the competent personnel for the performance of this task and their scientific training.REFERENCES