Mental Health Systems Act Becomes Law
The background to the Mental Health (Patients in the Community) Act, 1995 is reviewed briefly. Some problems concerning the Act's provisions for 'supervised discharge' are then discussed. Some more general extrapolations follow concerning the problems of legislating for social and personal 'ills'...
Oregon in the fall of2005 to determine if prescriptions written under Oregon's Death with Dignity law violate the Controlled Substances Act. The Attorney General of the United States also believes that hastening death is a public health danger because of the vulnerability of people with terminal ...
John Fanning contends that the amendments made to the civil commitment process, in England and Wales, by the Mental Health Act (MHA) 2007, injected a ‘new medicalism’ into mental health law, in contrast with the ‘legalism’ that characterised the 1983 legislation amended by the 2007 Act....
It explains what the Act does and what Convention law (under the European Convention) is and how it works. The text sets out wh... C Baker 被引量: 3发表: 1998年 Legal Rights and Responsibilities of Adolescents and Staff in Victorian Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Objectives: ...
Barriers in providing adequate care are not solely related to physicians’ knowledge/skills deficits, but also time constraints, lack of confidence/avoidance, which need to be addressed in mental health-care redesign. We hypothesized that family physician (FP) training in the Adult Mental Health ...
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Advances in research concerning the mental health implications of dietary patterns and select nutrients have been remarkable. At the same time, there have been rapid increases in the understanding of the ways in which non-pathogenic microbes can potentia
BEST INTERESTS, PATIENT PARTICIPATION AND THE MENTAL CAPACITY ACT 2005. The article focuses on the application of best interests' standard in the context of healthcare decisions in Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA). It focuses on ... Donnelly,Mary - 《Medical Law Review》 被引量: 18发表: 2009...
While the law has some exclusions (for example, group health plans covering less than 50 employees), it is substantially more comprehensive than the 1996 Mental Health Parity Act (PL 104-204) and considerably stronger than most state parity laws. It is noteworthy, in particular, in that it ...