The country of Duligan is undergoing major changes in its health-care system. Many interest groups have begun to propagate the community treatment approach for the treatment of the mentally ill

As a result, the government was forced to open many community health centers. Consequently, many mentally ill people began to be treated in these community centers than in psychiatric wards of mental hospitals. This shift in the treatment of the mentally ill is known as ________.
a. primary deviance
b. mechanization
c. deinstitutionalization
d. preventive medicine


Answer: c

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