Silva, Luísa Ferreira daAlves, Fátima2019-07-012019-07-011998http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/8371Within the socio-political paradigm, the history of Portuguese mental health policy emphasises Portugal as a semi-peripheral society. In a context of a welfare society replacing the State, community mental health care is supported by the family under whose protection and control mentally-ill people are relegated to a chronic status and socially excluded.engMental heatlhPolicyCommunity psychiatryPortugal"I just hope he dies before me" - Lay knowledge and experience of schizofrenia by ill people and their relatives in Portugalconference object