Quality of care and its determinants in rehabilitative mental health care across Europe

Background/Objectives: The European Commission's Green Paper on Mental Health in 2005 specifically highlighted the need to improve the social inclusion of mentally ill people and to protect their fundamental rights and dignity. It acknowledged the stigma and prejudice often faced by them, and recognised the evidence for better quality of life and improved social inclusion that the deinstitutionalization of mental health services in many countries has provided. This investigation explores the relationship between the unit characteristics and the quality of domains of care, as recorded by the „Quality Indicator fo…