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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

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dc.contributor.author Hapangama, A.
dc.contributor.author Mendis, J.
dc.contributor.author Kuruppuarachchi, K.A.L.A.
dc.date.accessioned 2022-12-08T09:10:21Z
dc.date.available 2022-12-08T09:10:21Z
dc.date.issued 2023
dc.identifier.citation BJPsych International.2023;20(1):4-6 [Epub 2022 Nov 28] en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2056-4740
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/25689
dc.description.abstract 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 focusing more on the detention of people with mental illnesses than on their treatment. It is high time all stakeholders made efforts for the much-awaited new Mental Health Act to pass through parliament urgently to meet the needs and protect the rights of patients, their caregivers and service providers. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Cambridge University Press en_US
dc.subject Mental health act en_US
dc.subject human rights en_US
dc.subject Sri Lanka en_US
dc.subject South Asia en_US
dc.subject mental diseases en_US
dc.title Why are we still living in the past? Sri Lanka needs urgent and timely reforms of its archaic mental health laws en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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