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  2. Mental Healthcare Act, 2017 - Wikipedia

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    Mental Healthcare Act, 2017. A law to provide for mental healthcare and services for people with mental illness and to protect, promote and fulfil the rights of such people during delivery of mental healthcare and services and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. In India, the Mental Health Care Act 2017 was passed on 7 April ...

  3. American Health Care Act of 2017 - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The American Health Care Act of 2017 (often shortened to the AHCA or nicknamed Ryancare) was a bill in the 115th United States Congress. The bill, which was passed by the United States House of Representatives but not by the United States Senate, would have partially repealed the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

  4. List of United States Supreme Court cases involving mental health

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    BOR, 14th. 1975. Drope v. Missouri. When deciding whether to evaluate a criminal defendant's competency, the court must consider any evidence suggestive of mental illness, even one factor alone in some circumstances. Therefore, the threshold for obtaining a competency evaluation is low.

  5. Study: Record number of Americans suffer from serious ... - AOL

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    A study about serious psychological distress, or SPD, and the care options available to those affected by it reveals a rather grim reality. Study: Record number of Americans suffer from serious ...

  6. National Institute of Mental Health - Wikipedia

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    The Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 – based on recommendations of the President's Commission on Mental Health and designed to provide improved services for persons with mental disorders – was passed. NIMH participated in development of the National Plan for the Chronically Mentally Ill, a sweeping effort to improve services and fine-tune ...

  7. Suicide legislation - Wikipedia

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    Mental Healthcare Act, 2017 (Decriminalisation of Suicide) 115. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 309 of the Indian Penal Code, any person who attempts to commit suicide shall be presumed, unless proved otherwise, to have severe stress and shall not be tried and punished under the said Code.

  8. Legislation to modernise Mental Health Act unveiled in ... - AOL

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    The Mental Health Act 1983 has not been amended since 2007. ... who conducted an independent review of the Mental Health Act in 2017. ...

  9. Mental health - Wikipedia

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    See also: Mental disorder. Mental health, as defined by the Public Health Agency of Canada, [6] is an individual's capacity to feel, think, and act in ways to achieve a better quality of life while respecting personal, social, and cultural boundaries. [7] Impairment of any of these are risk factor for mental disorders, or mental illnesses, [8 ...