Carl Morel, a biology premed major atBerea Collegein Kentucky, says mental health was not really something that was discussed back home in Cameroon – and those who did bring it up were sometimes ridiculed as weak. Being far away from home in a new academic and social environment...
Reforms to the infrastructure, especially in education, legal and medical institutions, and human resources, are also essential. The immediate challenge is to respond to the very acute mental health needs of the population in the short term, while making nonlimiting decisions that will contribute to...
Policies generate accountability in that they offer a standard against which government performance can be assessed. A central question of this study is wh
Americans may not have recognized that reality the last time they tried to reform the system. Back then, in the 1960s, there were also new wonder drugs. Chlorpromazine and its cousins composed patients enough that reformers could suggest closing the institutions that had often done no more than...
Phillipe Pinel in France and William Tukes in England formulated the concept of asylum as a safe refuge or haven offering protection at institutions where people had been whipped, beaten, or starved just because they were mentally ill (Gollaher, 1995). ...
1969: Tax Reform Act White House Photo // Wikimedia Commons 1969: Tax Reform Act The Tax Reform Act of 1969 is the first legislation to make the distinction between grant-making and service-providing institutions. It was created to overhaul federal taxes for nonprofit institutions and divided th...
of the right to community integration for people with disabilities locked in institutions. Article ID: 667963. Retrieved fromhttp://newswise.com/articles/international-case-against-mexico-seeks-recognition-of-the-right-to-community-integration-for-people-with-disabilities-locked-in-institutions ...
We should completely reform the way that we do it. I mean, you shouldn’t have to spend more time getting an education as a hairstylist than as a cop who’s armed with a deadly weapon. We should make it very hard for people to make mistakes or abuse power in ou...
but also ways of life. It targets social and cultural institutions and deliberately aims to undermine the means whereby people endure and recover from the suffering of war…”.In trying to design post war recovery programmes, it becomes important to try and understand the dynamics of how social...
In a survey of institutions’ views on their ability to handle ethical concerns of patient sexual expression, author Eric Wright found, “aside from formal legal declarations of incompetence, establishing competence to engage in sexual activity during treatment is further complicated by the dynamic ...