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...
MENTAL health servicesCORONAVIRUS Aid, Relief & Economic Security Act (U.S.)PEOPLE with mental illnessMENTAL health personnelMEDICAL personnelThe year 2017 is surely a milestone year for the professionals of mental health and the mentally ill patients. The year marks the hi...
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...
"There's been a significant rise in the number of young people suffering from a mental health problem over the last 10 years in the UK, but also around the world," says Dominique Thompson, a general practitioner who is also a young people's mental health expert. "Then along c...
In June 2017,news of footballer Aaron Lennonbeing “detained under the Mental Health Act for suffering a stress-related illness” provided mentions (2.1k). Authors shared feelings of support for the athlete, with some feeling displeased about how the news positioned his mental health, calling it...
Many other countries such as Jordan, Niger, Uganda, the UK, Zambia, etc., are also in the process of revising existing legislation. On the other hand, almost one-sixth of countries have mental health legislation that dates from before 1960, when the majority of the current effective methods...
7.20.6.2Community Mental Health Outpatient Services in the US In the US, the Community Mental Health Centers (CMHC) Act of 1963 financed the development of comprehensive community mental health centers. These centers were intended to provide services to the deinstitutionalized mentally ill and to pro...
UK voluntary sector mean that GPs are often the only place left for people to go to for help, and where GPs act as the main conduit for the administration of sick notes (now tellingly named ‘fitness for work’ notes) needed by people to evidence their ill health (Wheat et al.,2015)...