NUEVO MARCO JURÍDICO DE LA SALUD MENTAL EN URUGUAY

Abstract

Analysis of the new regime established by Law No. 19.529 regarding rights of patients with mental disorders, recognition of certain capacity to act, whether or not they are declared legally incapable, adjustments to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the UN dated December 10, 1948 and to the International Conventions on disabled persons approved by Uruguay, the problem of the disposal of personal rights in case of incapability , the possibility of granting informed consent for this type of patients, voluntary, involuntary and judicial hospitalization regimes as well as of organic aspects of the new law.