Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-09-05-Speech-2-350"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-09-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Improving the mental health of the population towards a strategy on mental health for the EU (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"lt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060905.27.2-350"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-09-05-Speech-2-3512
lpv:speaker	lp:Justas Vincas Paleckis2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2006-12-31)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-22--2007-02-13)3 substitute; ENVI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Lietuvos socialdemokratų partija (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, please accept my cordial welcome for such an unusually sincere and personal presentation of the draft report. This report and the debates that followed are an important step by the European Parliament in support of the development of the new mental health policy by the Commission, which is especially important to the new EU Member States. Poor mental health indicators, such as high suicide rates and numerous cases of violence and abuse, especially alcohol abuse, are not unusual in such countries. The new Member States have inherited inefficient mental healthcare systems based on large psychiatric institutions that just serve to perpetuate social exclusion and stigma. Presently, even these institutions are poorly financed, and thus, floundering and failing to perform their already limited functions. There is obviously a lack in the community-based services that should be a part of healthcare and social infrastructure. We can usually only report isolated cases of success in care homes for mental health patients, while home healthcare and community-based services are actually much more humanistic, better compatible with human rights and more cost-effective. We have no tradition of home healthcare that would be supported by society; therefore, the old system is resisting giving up its positions. The increasing number of children, who are growing up in state institutions, is particularly disturbing. This is further proof of the lack of an alternative system that would help parents in high-risk groups to properly raise and educate their children. Some new Member States have already taken the first steps towards implementing provisions that are compliant with EU principles. Lithuania has drafted a mental health policy that will be presented to Parliament for approval this year. Lithuania has also initiated the project 'Child and adolescent mental health in an enlarged European Union: development of effective policies and practices'. This project was supported by the Commission and has attracted 18 participant countries and 34 associate partners."@en1

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