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Speaking at the session, NA deputy Nguyễn Lâm Thành, from the northern province of Thái Nguyên said that the National Assembly (NA) was advised to consider passing the amended law at the eighth session, not now, because it was a challenging draft law, impacting various social groups.
Representatives of the social work sector display slogans decrying “political intervention” and the proposed changes to social workers registration board outside government headquarters on May 29
Graffiti in a downtown Windsor alleyway. The city’s revitalization plan aims to make the core shiny and new.
While we are grateful for the chance to provide feedback on the revisions to the IPF PPS as well as the development of an IPF patient assessment instrument (PAI), we urge CMS to proceed on the latter with more caution and less haste.
It didn’t used to be that way. For years, the Oregon State Hospital (above) primarily housed people with chronic mental illness, some of whom stayed there for years. That began to change as the state shifted away from long-term institutionalization. In the 1970s, the Oregon Legislature passed laws to send people charged with crimes to the state hospital — both those who were deemed mentally unfit to stand trial and those found guilty except for insanity.
Using population-wide registry data, researchers from the University of Helsinki, the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, the University of Jyväskylä and the University of Manchester investigated whether mental disorders can be transmitted within social networks formed by school classes.