Basaglia Law applies to jurisdiction Italy
Main consequences
The main long-term consequences of implementation of Law 180 are that:
Patients who were staying in mental hospitals before 1978 were gradually discharged into the community, and;
The availability of psychiatric beds in Italy is lower than in other comparable countries: Italy has 46 psychiatric beds for every 100, 000 population, compared with 58 in the United Kingdom and 77 in the United States of America.