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Why are we still living in the past? Sri Lanka needs urgent and timely reforms of its archaic mental health laws

Mental health legislation protects the rights of people with mental illnesses. However, despite major social, political and cultural changes, Sri Lankan mental health services still operate on laws enacted mostly during the British rule more than a century ago, in the pre-psychotropics era, and focu...

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Autores principales: Hapangama, Aruni, Mendis, Jayan, Kuruppuarachchi, K.A.L.A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9909436/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36812028
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2022.26