Akshita Singh, Research Scholar, Lucknow University
Aradhana Yadav, Assistant Professor of Law, Amity Law School, Amity University, Lucknow Campus
ABSTRACT
Mental and physical health is a vital human right which is obligatory for the practice of other human rights Mental health has been described as a condition of well-being in which each person fulfils his or her own capacity, can manage with daily hassles, could work creatively and meaningfully, and can contribute to her or his society. Children in today’s era are more vulnerable to mental disability other than any group. There is need for proper implementation regarding child mental disability other than the building health policies.
The World Health Organization's (WHO) 1946 Constitution outlines well- being as a condition of comprehensive physical, mental, and social well- being, not only the absence of sickness or disability. The link connecting mental health and human rights is inextricably linked and interconnected. Human rights breaches like as torture and relocation, for example, have a severe impact on mental health. Human rights can be harmed by mental health treatments, policies, and regulations such as forcible treatment. Human rights development helps mental health, and those advantages transcend past mental wellbeing to the contentious relationship among both wellnesses. Mental health treatment is essential to human rights for economic as well as clinical motives, and moral & legal requirements. If adequately stated, mental health doesn't really receive equal funding and focus as physical health, resulting in an unintended ranking in which mental health is valued less than physical wellbeing vital to human rights. If accurately noted, mental health somehow doesn't receive equal spending and attention as physical health, creating an unintentional hierarchy in which mental health is valued less than physical health.
Keywords: WHO, Mental Health, UNCRC, Child Mental Health, Article 21A, Article 14
