title: Reform in psychiatry in post-Soviet countries.
abstract: All the former Soviet countries are making efforts to reform psychiatry and adopt generally acknowledged international standards. Key issues of reform are changing the role of professional associations and the development of psychiatric legislation. This process is illustrated by the activities of psychiatric associations in Ukraine, Lithuania and Russia.
authors.affiliation: Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
authors.forename: S V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Polubinskaya
mesh_terms: D018166:Health Care Reform; D006806:Human Rights; D008097:Lithuania; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000639:trends*; D011640:Public Policy; D012426:Russia; D012924:Social Conditions; D014455:Ukraine