Mental health legislation in Egypt

This paper first briefly reviews the history of psychiatric services in Egypt. It then details the legislation in place during the last years of the Mubarak regime and goes on to set out recent developments, in particular the Code of Practice introduced for the Mental Health Act of 2009.

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Autores principales: Loza, Nasser, El Nawawi, Mohamed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2012
Materias:
Mental Health Law Profile
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6735071/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31508128
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spelling pubmed-67350712019-09-10 Mental health legislation in Egypt Loza, Nasser El Nawawi, Mohamed Int Psychiatry Mental Health Law Profile This paper first briefly reviews the history of psychiatric services in Egypt. It then details the legislation in place during the last years of the Mubarak regime and goes on to set out recent developments, in particular the Code of Practice introduced for the Mental Health Act of 2009. The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2012-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6735071/ /pubmed/31508128 Text en © 2012 The Royal College of Psychiatrists http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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