The Reform of Rehabilitation in the Community of Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities: Lessons from the Israeli Experience

Uri Aviram*

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Abstract

Purpose is to present the mental health rehabilitation reform enacted in Israel in 2000, and to analyze the challenges it faces in its second decade of implementation. Lessons are drawn with regard to other jurisdictions interested in reforming mental health services. Besides reviewing the reform’s accomplishments and its contribution to the changes that have occurred in mental health services, the article also assesses the dangers it has to contend with. Analysis focuses on the system’s clients, budget, personnel and services—and on its functional environment. During the past decade, the rehabilitation services have considerably expanded. However they cover only about one-fifth of the target population. Paper discusses the mutual dependency between the rehabilitation services and the recently implemented (mid-2015) mental health insurance reform, emphasizing the importance of the rehabilitation system’s efficient and effective functioning to the success of that reform and improvement of the mental health services in general.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)550-559
Number of pages10
JournalCommunity Mental Health Journal
Volume53
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jul 2017

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© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York.

Keywords

  • Community mental health services
  • Mental health policy
  • Mental health reform
  • Mental health rehabilitation reform
  • Policy analysis

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