Mental Healthcare ActMental illnessRights of person with mental illness"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease."-WHO (Constitution of the World Health OrganizationSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
Mental Healthcare Act 2017 - Aspiration to action. There is no health without mental health. Recently conducted National Mental Health Survey quoted a prevalence of 13.7% lifetime and 10.6% current mental m... Suresh,Bada,Math,... - 《Indian Journal of Psychiatry》 被引量: 0发表: 2019年 ...
Massive public awareness programs need to be conducted to enable persons who attempted to die by suicide, to access mental healthcare as per the provisions of the MHCA 2017. 展开 关键词: Attempted suicide Mental Healthcare Act 2017 suicide ...
India is revising its mental health legislation with the Indian Mental Healthcare Act 2017 (IMHA). When implemented, this legislation will apply to over 1.25 billion people. In 2005, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a Resource Book (WHO-RB) on mental health, human rights and legi...
The objective of this review was to compare the Indian Mental Healthcare Act (MHCA) of 2017 with mental health legislations currently existing in the USA, taking New York State Mental Hygiene Law as an example. The evolution of the American mental health legislation over the years was reviewed...
Recognising the importance of mental disorders in reducing the total disease burden, India launched its first National Mental Health Policy in 2014 and a revised Mental Healthcare Act in 2017, with the objectives of providing equitable, affordable, and universal access to mental health care.5, 6 ...
The new IndianMental HealthCare Act (MHCA) of 2017 (Vadlamani and Gowda, 2019) has decriminalized suicide but the ripples of a suicidal death or attempt continue to disrupt the life of the individual in particular and a mental health professional (MHP) at large. The recent suspected suicide...
including of facilitating the legislative process of "The People's Republic of China Mental Health Act",improving and implement the government policy,and successfully promoting the health care reform;developing the mental health service in the integrated hospitals,making a proper and reasonable use of ...
This review's findings confirmed the existence of strong barriers to offer an appropriate and effective care. Specific factors related to patients and providers act as barriers to address the healthcare needs of women with SMD (De Hert et al., 2011). Many barriers are related to women's atti...
In April 2007, the Mental Capacity Act established a statutory advocacy service for people who lack capacity and who have no friends or family and require support or advocacy for serious decisions. The role of the Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy Service (IMCA) is explained in Booklet 6: Mak...