title: [Protection of mental health: a priority task of the state and the society].
abstract: The paper is devoted to the World Health Day 2001--Mental Health Day. It gives a history of World Health Day. The state of the psychiatric science in Russia, the reforms carried out in psychiatry during the last decade and some measures of the perspective development of Russian psychiatry, proposed by the scientists and by the heads of some regional psychiatric services during the last years are considered.
authors.forename: V S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Iastrebov
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000592:standards* / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D012426:Russia