Mental health law in Saudi Arabia

During the past 30 years the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has developed an extensive hospital-based mental health system culminating in the passing of a mental health law in 2014. This legislation embodies many of the international standards promoted by the World Health Organization. However, the mechani...

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Autor principal: Carlisle, Jessica
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2018
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Mental Health Law Profile
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6020922/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29953138
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2017.10
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description During the past 30 years the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has developed an extensive hospital-based mental health system culminating in the passing of a mental health law in 2014. This legislation embodies many of the international standards promoted by the World Health Organization. However, the mechanisms for protecting the human rights of psychiatric patients are neither sufficiently independent nor adequately robust.
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spelling pubmed-60209222018-06-27 Mental health law in Saudi Arabia Carlisle, Jessica BJPsych Int Mental Health Law Profile During the past 30 years the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has developed an extensive hospital-based mental health system culminating in the passing of a mental health law in 2014. This legislation embodies many of the international standards promoted by the World Health Organization. However, the mechanisms for protecting the human rights of psychiatric patients are neither sufficiently independent nor adequately robust. Cambridge University Press 2018-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6020922/ /pubmed/29953138 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2017.10 Text en © The Author 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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