- emotional well-being : core indicator of human development
- basis for social stability
- impact of poor mental health: poverty, high unemployment, poor education, health, etc
Types: Common mental disorder, Severe Mental Disorder
Fact: Almost one million people die due to suicide every year (globally)
Govt. Initiative: National Mental Health Programme (NMHP)- 1982
Aim: accessibility of minimum mental health care for all
Approach shift: hospital based care (institutional) to community based mental health care
-majority of mental disorders do not require hospitalization and can be managed at community level.
difficulties/stigma faced by mentally ill persons- humane, patient-centric legal framework for mentally ill patients.
Changes that should be implemented:
- Removal of widely held misconceptions
- Admitted person-right to receive or refuse visitors, phone calls, mail,etc
- Right to have treatment in one's locality (avoiding segregation/ loneliness)
- Right to protection from cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment
- Establishment should have safe, clean with facilities for education, recreation, religious practices.
- No patient should be forced to undertake work and subject to compulsory shaving of head and wearing of uniforms.
- Mental illness may be made eligible for medical insurance coverage.
- Affordable treatment
- Government should interpret mental health services into general health care services at all levels in all health programmes.
Most Imp ---> Society should become more empathetic towards people suffering with mental illness
---> stigma attached to it should be removed through education
Sources: Press Information Bureau
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