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“Scope and implications of the

#VisibleMentalHealth National Mental Health Law'

Chair of
Autonomous University Public Health - Mental Health
from Entre Ríos

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NATIONAL HEALTH LAW
MENTAL N°26,657
WHAT IS IT ABOUT
SANCTIONED IN 2010, IT WAS VALUED AS A MODEL LAW
BY THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS OF
PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS. IT WAS AN ADVANCE
KEY TO THE RECOGNITION OF PEOPLE WITH
MENTAL DISEASE AS SUBJECTS OF LAW AND
FOR THE REPLACEMENT OF THE ASYMYMY BY
DECENT TREATMENTS .

WHAT IS HEALTH
MENTAL?
Mental health is recognized as a
process determined by historical, socio-
economic, cultural, biological and
psychological components.

INTERNMENT
It is considered the LAST therapeutic resource,
It must be BRIEF , and can only be carried out when it
provides greater benefits than the rest of the
interventions that can be carried out in the environment.

DEMANICOMIALI family, community or social of the user.

ZATION
The care process should preferably be
carried out OUTSIDE the hospital setting
and within the framework of an
interdisciplinary and intersectoral approach,
based on the principles of PRIMARY
HEALTH CARE . It will be aimed at
strengthening, restitution or promotion of
the user's social ties.

BOARDING
MODE
Mental health care is provided by an
INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAM made up of
professionals, and includes
the areas of psychology, psychiatry, social
work, nursing, occupational therapy and
other relevant disciplines or fields.

MEDICATION
The prescription of medication should only
respond to the fundamental needs of the
person with mental illness and will be
administered EXCLUSIVELY for
therapeutic purposes and never as
punishment or for the convenience of third
parties.
Psychopharmacological treatments must be
carried out within the framework of
interdisciplinary approaches.

http://fepra.org.ar/docs/Ley-nacional-salud-mental.pdf