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MENTAL HEALTH LEGISLATION [1 record]

Record 1 2005-04-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Health Law
CONT

Every province and territory in Canada has mental health legislation specifically dealing with the subject of patients in mental hospitals. The provisions of these enactments apply only to psychiatric hospitals despite the fact that a great number of psychiatric patients are treated in the psychiatric departments of general hospitals.

CONT

Mental health legislation includes provisions concerned with the restraint and protection of individual patients, regulation of compulsory admission, discharge procedures, appeals, protection of property, etc.

CONT

National policies, programmes and legislation on mental health are basic requirements for mental health care in any country.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la santé
CONT

La dangerosité, qu'on appelle aussi l'état dangereux, est une notion utilisée depuis longtemps, dans le système de justice pénale et dans les lois en matière de santé mentale [ ... ]

CONT

À l'heure actuelle, on accorde une attention considérable au concept de «capacité mentale», et l'on s'attend à ce que des changements significatifs soient apportés aux lois sur la santé mentale.

OBS

lois en matière de santé mentale; lois sur la santé mentale : termes habituellement utilisés au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • loi concernant la santé mentale
  • loi en matière de santé mentale
  • loi sur la santé mentale

Spanish

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