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...
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 morbidity. To address this mammoth problem, an aspirational law was enacted titled “Mental Healthcare Act, 2017” (MHCA 201...
University student mental health survey 2020: A large scale study into the prevalence of student mental illness within UK universities. (2020) (2020) Retrieved from https://www.diginbox.com/go/files/Mental%20Health%20Report%202019%20(2020).pdf ...
44 Questions from Britannica’s Most Popular Health and Medicine Quizzes Thecatatonicsubtype is characterized by striking motor behaviour. The patient may remain in a state of almost complete immobility, often assuming statuesque positions. Mutism (inability to talk), extremecompliance, and absence of...
The growing strength of advocacy for mental health reform, called the mental hygiene movement, and the passage of the National Mental Health Act in 1946 in the USA instigated new directions in mental health care. The UK Mental Health Act of 1959 encouraged a rapid reduction in mental hospital ...
Written in a clear, practical style, designed to be accessible to both the medical and legal profession User-friendly style: primary and secondary legislation is annotated in the Parts with the analysis of important contextual aspects of mental health law located in the Annexes Readers benefit from...
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...
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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 attitudes and psychosocial issues, such as difficulties in expressing their health needs, lack of social skills to...
Women and gender-diverse individuals have faced disproportionate socioeconomic burden during COVID-19. There have been reports of greater negative mental health changes compared to men based on cross-sectional research that has not accounted for pre-COVI