community-based alternative

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alternative
noun[C]
uk
/ɒlˈtɜː.nə.tɪv/
us
/ɑːlˈtɝː.nə.t̬ɪv/
something that is different from something else, especially from what is usual, and offering the possibility ...
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(Definition ofalternativefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The case being studied was the introduction of an organizational change, which was a community-basedalternativeto the hospital rehabilitation of patients.
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Work aims to provide a more reliable,community-basedalternativeby training and employing local community health promoters, called promotores.
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For the first time, the federal government mandated a series of community-based alternatives to hospital care.
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Increasing emphasis on rights and autonomy, along with empirical research on the deleterious effects on older people of institutionalisation, have increased the attractiveness of community-based alternatives such as assisted-living.
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Better value for money is therefore being achieved in the long-term care places purchased by the council, and that releases money for community-based alternatives.
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We were impressed by some of the user initiatives that we saw in various places, which offered community-based alternatives to in-patient care.
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My third point is that increasing resort to non-custodial alternatives, community-based alternatives, postulates an increase in the probation service.
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Community-based alternatives are an integral part of this.
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There is therefore a need to provide effective community-based alternatives.
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The cultural divide between that role and the necessary regimes for some community-based alternatives to prison would be too great for them to jump.
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The aim of this research was to identify and describe examples of community-based alternatives to immigration detention.
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The first community-based alternatives were suggested and tentatively implemented in the 1920s and 1930s, although asylum numbers continued to increase up to the 1950s.
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