Restrictions of Personal Freedom in the Context of Psychiatric Care in the Czech Republic

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Restrictions of Personal Freedom in the Context of Psychiatric Care in the Czech Republic

Original language description

The paper analyses some of the most controversial issues relating to restrictions of personal freedom of psychiatric patients in the Czech Republic. First, the abolishment of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment in the United Nations Convention against j Torture and the European Convention on Human Rights is analysed. Then, the paper presents the problems of involuntary hospitalization and the use of means of restraint in the context of psychiatric care from the perspective of the United Nations and the Council of Europe reports regarding the situation of human rights in the Czech Republic. The paper also focuses on the European Court of Human Rights case-law or the activities of several international NGOs. While the norms regulating involuntary hospitalization are relatively detailed and correspond the international standards, the degree of institutionalization of psychiatric patients is too high. The most controversial issues related to the use of means of restraint are the use of net-beds and the frequent lack of adequate supervision over restrained patients by members of the health care staff.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Czech Yearbook of Public and Private International Law, česká ročenka mezinárodního práva veřejného a soukromého

ISSN

1805-0565

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2017

Issue of the periodical within the volume

8

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

407-424

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85041088336