Public policies, mental disorders, and patients’ human rights
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https://doi.org/10.56116/cms.v64.n4.2024.2022Keywords:
Public policies, Human rights, Psychiatric disorder, Duty to defend, Quality of psychiatric care, Investment in mental healthAbstract
A substantial number of people in Chile, probably millions, live with a diagnosable psychiatric disorder according to WHO criteria. It is a human right that such people have access to treatments that are effective, evidence-based, and provided with respect and compassion, especially given the fact that now the World Bank Chile considers as a high-income country. Those working in psychiatry and mental health, whether clinically or in national or regional government roles, have an ethical duty to advocate for the right to access the required treatments. Neither ideological debates nor therapeutic positions should hinder the exercise of this right by patients and their relatives.
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