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Human rights principles in developing and updating policies and laws on mental health
Published 2016-01-01“…The World Health Organization's Mental Health Action Plan 2013–2020 stipulates human rights as a cross-cutting principle (WHO, 2013) and foresees global targets to update policies as well as mental health laws in line with international and regional human rights instruments. …”
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Comparing legislation for involuntary admission and treatment of mental illness in four South Asian countries
Published 2019-10-01“…Each country has faced challenges when reforming or implementing their mental health laws. Barriers included legal safeguards, human rights protections, funding, resources, absence of a robust wider health system, political support and sub-optimal mental health literacy. …”
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Open Doors by Fair Means: a quasi-experimental controlled study on the effects of an open-door policy on acute psychiatric wards
Published 2022-07-01“…However, on the basis of observational evidence, the necessity for locked units in psychiatric hospitals has increasingly been questioned. Updated Mental Health Laws in several Federal States of Germany legitimate involuntary commitment without generally locked doors. …”
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Beijing's Mental Health Workers' Perceptions of the Severe Mental Illness Reporting System
Published 2022-06-01“…Methods From March to June 2019, a survey was conducted among a convenient sample of 234 mental health workers from municipal-level psychiatric hospitals, and two stratified samples of 397 mental health workers (one sample of 183 cases from district-level psychiatric hospitals, and the other sample of 214 cases from community-level hospitals) , using a questionnaire named Status of the Rule of Mental Health Laws in Beijing for understanding these workers' general information and their perceptions of the SMIRS. …”
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