Editorial The Mental Health Care Act: challenges and opportunitiesdoi:10.4314/AJPSY.V9I1.30200Christopher P SzaboIn House Publications
A mental health program is a national plan of action that outlines the strategies and resources needed to address mental health issues in a country. It prioritizes community-based care, deinstitutionalization, and collaboration across different sectors. These programs may also focus on specific populat...
Access to mental health care and treatment is emphasized as a fundamental right under the Mental Healthcare Act. The focus of district mental health program (DMHP) under the aegis of National Mental Health program is to provide mental health interventions for all at the community level. Women ...
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 (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 An Act of the Scottish Parliament to restate and amend the law relating to mentally disordered persons; and for connected purposes. Franks,RA Cobb,David - Statute Law Database 被引量: 16发表: 2005年 ...
Racial, ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity in Australia is rapidly increasing. Although Indigenous Australians account for only approximately 3.5% of the country’s population, over 50% of Australians were born overseas or have at least one migran
000 cases per year, that is, on average 38 people commit suicide per day. In this context,“Yellow September”was created in Brazil, the largest anti-stigma campaign in the world that encourages everyone to actively act in the awareness and prevention of suicide, a topic that is still seen...
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 provide services to persons who would have been institutionalized ...
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...
"I'd make her go to school and make her do things. But as a parent, you're not sure if you're pushing them too hard or if you should leave them, it's a very difficult balancing act," says Irwin. 'It was swept under the carpet' She first noticed the signs when her...