Abstract
Following a brief review of the literature the article describes the deployment of psychiatric teams in isolated, deprived, rural areas. The visiting teams were put into operation according to the principles of community psychiatry and were acting mostly as consultants to the local resources.
In a little more than a year, 1608 files were started, 25 percent of this number were for children. The number of adults requiring hospitalization outside the region was reduced from 170 to 47. Local hospitalizations were also studied, and conditions which resulted in the findings in this paper were examined.
The usefulness and value of travelling teams in isolated rural areas is emphasized.
