Mental Health Act, Salient Features, Objectives, Critique and Future Directions
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Mental health legislation is essential for protecting the rights and dignity of persons with mental disorders, and for developing accessible and effective mental health services. Effective mental health legislation can provide a legal framework to integrate mental health services into the community and to overcome stigma, discrimination and exclusion of mentally-ill persons. Legislation can also create enforceable standards for high quality medical care, improve access to care, and protect civil, political, social and economic rights of mentally-ill individuals, including a right of access to education, housing, employment and social security.
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