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52 degrees south: mental health services in the Falkland Islands

This article discusses the factors that have shaped the development of the new mental health legislation within the Falkland Islands. The process of implementing new legislation within this remote island community is discussed, including the aspirations underlying the new legislation, the management...

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Autores principales: Rimicans, Karen, McInerny, Tim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6020911/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29953121
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2017.15
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spelling pubmed-60209112018-06-27 52 degrees south: mental health services in the Falkland Islands Rimicans, Karen McInerny, Tim BJPsych Int Thematic Paper This article discusses the factors that have shaped the development of the new mental health legislation within the Falkland Islands. The process of implementing new legislation within this remote island community is discussed, including the aspirations underlying the new legislation, the management of psychiatric emergencies and the needs of the clinical team. Cambridge University Press 2018-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6020911/ /pubmed/29953121 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2017.15 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is unaltered and is properly cited. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use or in order to create a derivative work.
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