Contents:
- Human rights in mental health care in India: historical perspectives
- Mental health legislation: an Indian perspective
- Judical interventions and NHRC initiatives in mental health care
- Quality assurance in mental health: a blueprint for change
- A decade after the NHRC quality assurance initiative: current status of government psychiatric hospitals in India
- Health as a fundamental right: the national mental health programme initiative
- Realising the objectives of the national mental health programme: a look at states and innovations
- Human resource development in mental health care
- Psychiatric Rehabilitation in India
- Human rights in the community: user perspectives and the role of NGOs
- Insurance and mental illness: concerns and challenges
- Women and children: mental health dimensions
- Human rights and disaster: psychosocial support and mental health services
- Resource convergence and mental health care
- Future directions for mental health care in India