ADVANCE directives (Medical care)The Chapter 5 of the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017, referred henceforth as "the Act," lays down the "rights of person with mental illness" and it forms the core depth of this legislation. The Act makes provision for the care, treatment, and rehabilitation ...
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...
Massive public awareness programs need to be conducted to enable persons who attempted to die by suicide, to access mental healthcare as per the provisions of the MHCA 2017. 展开 关键词: Attempted suicide Mental Healthcare Act 2017 suicide ...
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...
This review's findings confirmed the existence of strong barriers to offer an appropriate and effective care. 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 atti...
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...
Mental HealthCare Act 2017: It guarantees every affected person access to mental healthcare and treatment from services run or funded by the government. It has significantly reduced the scope for the use of Section 309 IPC and made the attempt to commit suicide punishable only as an exception....
negative influence buildings have on our health and wellbeing. From Dickensian London to the bold experiments of postwar urban planners, and from healing spaces for cancer patients to the role architecture can play in global healthcare provision, we look anew at the buildings that surround and ...
The hierarchical analysis also showed that participant’s age as well as the number of cultural competence-related workshops, conferences, or training sessions attended since the beginning of mental health care practice were positively associated with cultural competence. This finding suggests that cultur...
Following a situational analysis framework44,45, we naively approached the situation we defined as ASR adolescents’ access to mental healthcare in Germany. We investigated how different worlds—universes of discourses and actors committed to a common goal or agenda—contribute to the broader ecology...