Naslov
New Croatian Law On Protection of Persons with Mental Disorders in Comparison with Mental Health Acts Across Europe: Do We Have a Different View On Human Rights?

Autori
Kudumija Slijepčević, Marija ; Jovanović, Nikolina ; Bilonić, Gorana ; Paštar, Zvonimir ; Drmić, Stipe ; Albaigès, E.C.

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, stručni

Izvornik
European Psychiatry, Abstracts of the 23rd European Congress of Psychiatry / - , 2015, 1417-1417

Skup
23rd European Congress of Psychiatry (EPA 2015) "Excellence in Psychiatry across Europe: Practice, Education, Research, ”

Mjesto i datum
Beč, Austrija, 28.03.2015. - 31.03.2015

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Mental Disorders, Health Acts, Human Rights

Sažetak
Introduction Croatia is introducing the new Law on Protection of Persons with mental disorders on January 1, 2015. Major changes are related to the terms of involuntary admissions, thus aiming to improve protection of persons with mental disorders within psychiatric care. Aim Aim of this paper is to compare mental health legislation and position of mentally ill people in five EU countries, namely Croatia, Germany, Spain, Sweden and UK. Methods Methods of descriptive analysis are employed to explore similarities and differences among countries in relation to the four following indicators - involuntary admission procedure, forms of involuntary treatment, maximum duration of involuntary treatment and patients' legal right to complain. Results Despite all being in the EU, countries included in the study vary substantially in their legislation for the practice of involuntary hospital admission which will be presented in details. Conclusion How involuntary treatments should be legislated and regulated is highly controversial. We believe that EU countries should join forces to create a common understanding of this issue because legal differences could lead to substantial discrepancies in human right protection practices regarding persons with mental disorders.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Kliničke medicinske znanosti

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