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The Mental Health (Care and Treatment) Act 2008 of Singapore [1] was passed in 2008 to regulate the involuntary detention of a person in a psychiatric institution for the treatment of a mental disorder, or in the interest of the health and safety of the person or the persons around him. [2]
Singapore opened its first psychiatric hospital, the Institute of Mental Health, in 1928, and all general hospitals currently have psychiatry departments. [1] Major depressive disorder is the most common mental illness in Singapore, with about six percent of the population suffering from it.
Mental Capacity Act 2008; Mental Health (Care and Treatment) Act 2008; Merchant Shipping (Civil Liability and Compensation for Bunker Oil Pollution) Act 2008; Moneylenders Act 2008; Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Act 2008; Patents (Amendment) Act 2008; Property Tax (Amendment) Act 2008; Public Transport Council (Amendment) Act 2008
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Under the Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity Act, rehabilitation centers are able to bill insurance companies for substance use treatment. [84] With long wait lists in limited state-funded rehabilitation centers, controversial private centers rapidly emerged. [84]
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 46/119, "Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and the Improvement of Mental Health Care", is a non-binding resolution advocating certain broadly drawn procedures for the carrying out of involuntary commitment. [36]
In November 2017, it was announced that the government would introduce legislation in 2018 to mandate all private doctors to submit patient information for the centralised national healthcare database named National Electronic Health Records System (NEHR). [46] Patients can request for their health records to be made inaccessible to physicians ...
Pawnbrokers Act 2015; Payment Services Act 2019; Penal Code (Singapore) Personal Data Protection Act 2012; Presidential Council for Minority Rights; Protection from Harassment Act (Singapore) Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act 2019