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Basic study on architectural planning of psychiatric hospital

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This paper considers the main problems of the current mental health facilities in China from the standpoint of architects on the background that mental disorder has become a serious threat to human health. In order to effectively learn from the developed countries, this paper reviews the brief history of the world’s mental health and the main phases of the evolution of psychiatric hospitals, analyzes the actual situation of mental health facilities abroad based on a large amount of data, compares the roles of public and private psychiatric hospitals from the viewpoint of government supervision, and investigates the functions and positions of psychiatric hospitals and the psychiatry divisions of general hospitals in the medical system. At last, this paper discusses the necessity of the systemization of mental health facilities, the role of psychiatric hospitals in this facility system and the developing approaches of psychiatric hospitals in China.

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  1. Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China

    Ying Zhou

  2. Nanjing University of Science & Technology, Nanjing, 210094, China

    YaoNan Sun

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Zhou, Y., Sun, Y. Basic study on architectural planning of psychiatric hospital. Sci. China Technol. Sci. 53, 1755–1767 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11431-010-3077-6

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