Mental health law in Finland

A tradition of Romano-Germanic or civil law defines the legal system in Finland. Laws of relevance to psychiatry are the 1990 Mental Health Act and, insofar as it pertains to forensic psychiatry, the Criminal Law (1889) and the Law on State Mental Hospitals (1987, revised 1997). These are outlined i...

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Autores principales: Seppänen, Allan, Eronen, Markku
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2012
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Mental Health Law Profile
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6735078/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31508140
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description A tradition of Romano-Germanic or civil law defines the legal system in Finland. Laws of relevance to psychiatry are the 1990 Mental Health Act and, insofar as it pertains to forensic psychiatry, the Criminal Law (1889) and the Law on State Mental Hospitals (1987, revised 1997). These are outlined in the present paper.
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spelling pubmed-67350782019-09-10 Mental health law in Finland Seppänen, Allan Eronen, Markku Int Psychiatry Mental Health Law Profile A tradition of Romano-Germanic or civil law defines the legal system in Finland. Laws of relevance to psychiatry are the 1990 Mental Health Act and, insofar as it pertains to forensic psychiatry, the Criminal Law (1889) and the Law on State Mental Hospitals (1987, revised 1997). These are outlined in the present paper. The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2012-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6735078/ /pubmed/31508140 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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