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Inclusion of mental health initiatives in the work of family health teams has an important relevance if we consider epidemiological magnitude of mental health disorders and the need of increasing access for mental health care in the Brazilian Public Health System (SUS). This has ...

Mental health teams have long been the foundation for mental health services provided to children and youth. Changes in professional practices, the emergence of evidence-based care, the importance of integrating mental health into primary health care delivery, the decrease in pro...

Many patients with emotional disorders receive their mental health care from general medical physicians. In this article, we examine differences in costs and style between mental health care delivered by mental health specialists and that provided by general medical physicians, a...

Introduction There is clear evidence of social and economic impact of mental health disorders started in childhood and adolescence and of the inefficiency of health systems to deal with the problem in most countries. Public policies based on epidemiological data are urgently need...

There is a critical need for research to examine the changing mental health services system, to evaluate major innovations in the provision of mental health treatment, and to remove existing barriers to comprehensive and cost-effective care. To achieve these aims, collaboration i...

OBJECTIVE: To analyze a comprehensive multivariate model of the use of mental health-related ambulatory care services by children ages 6-17. STUDY SETTING: The 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey, a national probability sample of the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized popula...

In Brazil, the historical period between 1979 to 1992 was marked by a political, social and cultural effervescence as well as the increase in struggles for redemocratization which led to the organizing of many diverse social movements. As a consequence of the search for both demo...

The introduction of Mental Health Team (MHT) in the Family Health Program (FHP) is recent and restricted to a few places. The knowledge about MHT activities in the FHP is limited and so are the Community Health Agents (CHA) actions in mental health area. From this perspective, th...

The Brazilian mental health policy proposes the organization of a full care network composed of instruments to provide psychosocial care to people with mental disorders. Each municipality should structure a group of actions to respond to the mental health demands and guarantee a ...

OBJECTIVE: To test the factorial validity of the SF-36. DATA SOURCE: Sample data collected in 1995 and 1996 using telephone interviews with health system employees as part of a study of health status. METHODS OF ANALYSIS: Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation model...

This study aims to investigate what conceptions the basic health attention professionals have about the relationship between mental health and territory and about the deployment process of mental health within the territory. This process is very complex and includes notions about...

Nowadays religion is an important issue for the modern society, a complex and fundamental socio-cultural phenomenon. There is evidence that religious commitment tends to correlete positively with the mental health. The religion seems to have an important role or the mental health...

The proposed Psychiatric Reform has changed how mental health patients have been assisted in recent decades. With the deinstitutionalization of mental health patients, new paradigms have emerged offering great challenges to all social actors involved in constructing citizenship a...

This article specifies and estimates a model of provider choice for mental health services. Three types of providers are identified: specialty mental health providers, general medical providers, and informal providers. Specific attention is paid to the role of health and mental h...

O objetivo deste artigo é avaliar o apoio matricial na perspectiva de 14 profissionais de uma unidade de saúde da família em um estudo avaliativo qualitativo realizado a partir da Avaliação de Quarta Geração. Os dados foram coletados por meio de observação e entrevistas e analisa...

The aim of this thesis is to place the mental health theme within the discussion about the innovation health system. Firstly, the health sector was compared to the other sectors of economic activity from a theoretical point of view. As the differences among them proved to be subs...

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The research aimed to understand relationships between work and subjectivity in mental health conducted in primary care teams with the workers, Mental Health / SM and Family Health / SF allocated to Basic Health Unit / Health Center. Developed the research, through documentary an...

OBJECTIVE: To explore the question of how insurance coverage has changed among individuals with mental problems compared to the general population in the last two years. DATA SOURCES: HealthCare for Communities, a national survey to track health system changes. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS...

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Abstract The occidental model of mental health support, dominant in Brazil, cannot be understood without considering nonprofessional curative practices and social representations of health and sickness. Here I summarize my research of the past several years on mental health and s...