Mental health law in Nepal

During the past three decades Nepal has gone through series of reforms to address the mental health needs of the Nepalese population by promulgation of an exclusive National Mental Health Policy and related Strategic Action Plan. Small but significant improvements have been achieved in Nepal with re...

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Autores principales: Singh, Rakesh, Khadka, Seema
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2022
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Mental Health Law Profile
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9811380/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36622651
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2021.52
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description During the past three decades Nepal has gone through series of reforms to address the mental health needs of the Nepalese population by promulgation of an exclusive National Mental Health Policy and related Strategic Action Plan. Small but significant improvements have been achieved in Nepal with regard to mental health policies and plans. This article discusses the evolution of mental health policies in Nepal and analyses the challenges to be overcome for their effective implementation.
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spelling pubmed-98113802023-01-05 Mental health law in Nepal Singh, Rakesh Khadka, Seema BJPsych Int Mental Health Law Profile During the past three decades Nepal has gone through series of reforms to address the mental health needs of the Nepalese population by promulgation of an exclusive National Mental Health Policy and related Strategic Action Plan. Small but significant improvements have been achieved in Nepal with regard to mental health policies and plans. This article discusses the evolution of mental health policies in Nepal and analyses the challenges to be overcome for their effective implementation. Cambridge University Press 2022-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9811380/ /pubmed/36622651 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2021.52 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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