Mental health law: a comparison of compulsory hospital admission in Italy and the UK

Frontiers in Public Health

Public Health

Lucienne Aguirre¹  Federico Manetti²  Vittorio Fineschi²  Martina Padovano²  Paola Frati²  Raffaele La Russa³  Matteo Scopetti⁴  Stefano D’Errico⁵ 

[1] City & Hackney Adult & Older People’s Mental Health Services, East London Foundation NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom;Department of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic and Orthopedic Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy;Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy;Department of Medical Surgical Sciences and Translational Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy;Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy;

关键词: compulsory admission;    mental health law;    mental health care;    fundamental rights;    public health;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2023.1265046

 received in 2023-07-21, accepted in 2023-09-21,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

In Europe, the mental health law legal framework has had several changes throughout the years to achieve and develop new reforms, better mental health care, and protect the human rights of patients. The UK national data shows rising detention rates and the disproportionate use of the legal framework among people from black and minority ethnic groups. At the national level, compulsory admissions are lower in Italy; it also shows that it has increased in the last few years in both countries. The lack of ethnic national data, especially in Italy, limited the ability to understand compulsory admission, discrimination, and stigma in mental health. The present study aims to compare the legal framework of mental health law and compulsory hospital admission in Italy and the UK. A review of each country’s latest amendments to mental health law and the number of compulsory hospital admissions was conducted to understand the impact of changes in mental health care.

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