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Australia's next health system : Comments
By Julia Gillard, published 1/9/2006Meet next century's health system - the reforms that are needed.
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Affirm the World Health Organisation’s call for a "global emergency" on Mental Health.
Align Australia’s Mental Health goals through the accords of the World Health Organisation.
Director, Dr Benedetto Saraceno, has now officially declared a "global emergency" in human rights on the mental health system worldwide.
Dr Benedetto Saraceno is the WHO Director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse in Geneva, Switzerland.
Ms Julia Gillard, this is extremely important.
To consider just one reason why, please see problematic areas in Australia’s legislation. The link-below highlights the burden for just one consumer, here in Cape York, where all requests for assistant have not been recurrent, progressive; but malevolent.
http://www.miacat.com/Media_Pan_One/WorldSystemsOfHealing/Health_Rights/The_Problem.html
Dr Benedetto Saraceno, Director for the World Health Organisation (WHO), has asked the United Nations to declare a "global emergency" on Mental Health, during UN meetings on the 23 August 2006, last week.
"I insist on the word global", said Mr Dr Benedetto Saraceno, "as people believe that these kinds of violations always occur everywhere else."
Dr Benedetto Saraceno said, "A human rights violation is not just a matter of denied access to treatment but also and often consists in treatment itself which is inhuman or simply of very bad quality".
I declare Ms Gillard, Australia has a “national emergency” in Human Right examples including;
1) Undue influence of the pharmaceutical industry: Australia unlike NZ, Canada and some parts of Europe has an increasingly narrow "medical model" of mental health. This is squeezing out non-drug socially engaging alternatives. While drug companies continue to dominate the future of the mental health field, the humane non drug options are seldom made available.
2) The rise of involuntary and "direct" electroshock in Australia is an outrage.
WHO demands an immediate ban on forced electroshock.
The power of the "medical model" is growing, but drugs are expensive and electricity cheap and, most often given against the expressed wishes of the subject.
I believe this is “shameful” in a country as knowledgeable and economically advanced as Australia.
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