Focuses on the Mental Health Act in Great Britain. Promotion of the principle of non-discrimination on the grounds of mental ill health; Emphasis on patient autonomy; Incorporation of safeguards to ensure the health and safety of individual patients and the safety of the public; Recommendation to...
HEALTH care reformMENTAL illnessPATIENT Protection & Affordable Care ActSOCIETIESLast month, President Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act, which represents major progress into mental health reform. Along with major changes to this country''s mental health system, the legislation provides $1 ...
Mental Health Act - Reformdoi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.319.7221.1322LegalApproachMentalHealthTherapiesRadcliffe M.R ThayaParanBMJ
The growing strength of advocates for mental health reform, called the mental hygiene movement, and 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 beds...
The mental hospital era was an age of reform, and there is no doubt that patients were treated much more humanely than in earlier times. The era produced a large number of segregated institutions in which a much-higher proportion of the mentally ill was confined than previously. But the medi...
Mental Health Friendly Cities, a global multi-stakeholder initiative led by citiesRISE, mobilizes youth-driven action and systems reform to promote and sustain the mental health and well-being of young people in cities around the world30,31(Supplementary Information). To guide transformative actions ...
BackgroundDramatic changes have occurred in mental health treatments during the past decade. Data on recent treatment patterns are needed to estimate the
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[12], the further development of this subspecialty did not take place as expected due to poor allocation of funds and a general lack of coordination between parties involved in the decision-making. The Romanian National Mental Health Reform Act [11] provides for the establishment of liaison ...
Mental Health Friendly Cities, a global multi-stakeholder initiative led by citiesRISE, mobilizes youth-driven action and systems reform to promote and sustain the mental health and well-being of young people in cities around the world30,31(Supplementary Information). To guide transformative actions ...