Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union gay parades and the use of veiled schemes to lay off openly lesbian and gay persons from schools, child care centers, and other public institutions. The chief psychiatrist of Russia Zurab Kekelidze in his 2013 interview to Dozhd says that a part of the cases of homosexuality is a mental disorder, he counters the remark that the World Health Organization removed homosexuality from the list of mental disorders by stating that it is not true. Homosexuality, which is a mental disorder, was continuously defined as such by the Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia in 2005 when its president Savenko expressed
Mental health informatics as pervasive, in spite of professional recognition the domain appearing well suited to computerisation and the need for quantified outcome evidence. A major impediment may be societal stigma associated with mental disorders as well as increased sensitivity about protecting the privacy and confidentiality of records in mental health care. There also may be a professional reluctance to effect changes in established working patterns that the introduction of systems necessarily entails. Mental health informatics Mental health informatics is a branch of health or clinical informatics concerned with the use of information technology (IT) and information to improve mental health. Like health