title: [Current problems in psychiatric health care in Poland (2003)].
abstract: The paper is a presentation of the most important and actual psychiatric health care problems in Poland: the financial situation of hospitals, the risks faced by the out-patient psychiatric care, maintaining the legal issues of the psychiatric patients, the situation of forensic psychiatry and legal-psychiatric expertise, postgraduate training, availability of psychotropic drugs. Attention is paid to the importance of giving the programme of psychiatric health protection a status of evident value and that this programme should become a national programme.
authors.forename: Stanisław
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Puzyński
mesh_terms: D005555:Forensic Psychiatry / Q000458:organization & administration; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D028642:Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D028701:Patient Rights; D011044:Poland; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care
chemical_list: D011619:Psychotropic Drugs