CommunicationPublished on 5 March 2021

Community-based psychiatry – outpatient therapy instead of in-patient care

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) has been supporting a highly promising approach to the treatment of widespread mental illness since 2009. Instead of being hospitalised, patients can receive outpatient therapy at local community care centres where the range and quality of services are being improved. This approach is proving successful, not just for patients, but for everyone concerned.