The Policy Gap. Global Mental Health in a Semi-Peripheral Country (Portugal, 1998-2016)

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Main Author: Marques,Tiago Pires
Publication Date: 2017
Format: Article
Language: eng
Source: Interface (Botucatu. Online)
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Summary: This paper analyzes the impact of the hegemonic paradigm of global mental health (GMH) on Portugal. We specifically argue that GMH in Portugal has effected a change of priorities in health policies, favoring the prevention and treatment of common mental disorders to the detriment of the deinstitutionalizing process. Diffused through the media, this model has negative effects, such as the medicalization of social suffering, the reorganization of mental health policy areas according to utilitarian criteria, and the risk of greater invisibility of users with serious psychiatric diagnoses. However, the GMH approach, bringing to the frontline the impact of all social policies on mental health, represents a new opportunity to politically address social suffering. Characterized as a semi-peripheral country, Portugal may be representative of observable trends in similar countries.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The Policy Gap. Global Mental Health in a Semi-Peripheral Country (Portugal, 1998-2016)
title The Policy Gap. Global Mental Health in a Semi-Peripheral Country (Portugal, 1998-2016)
spellingShingle The Policy Gap. Global Mental Health in a Semi-Peripheral Country (Portugal, 1998-2016)
Marques,Tiago Pires
Globalization
Mental health
Psychiatric reforms
Psychiatric epidemiology
Human rights
title_short The Policy Gap. Global Mental Health in a Semi-Peripheral Country (Portugal, 1998-2016)
title_full The Policy Gap. Global Mental Health in a Semi-Peripheral Country (Portugal, 1998-2016)
title_fullStr The Policy Gap. Global Mental Health in a Semi-Peripheral Country (Portugal, 1998-2016)
title_full_unstemmed The Policy Gap. Global Mental Health in a Semi-Peripheral Country (Portugal, 1998-2016)
title_sort The Policy Gap. Global Mental Health in a Semi-Peripheral Country (Portugal, 1998-2016)
author Marques,Tiago Pires
author_facet Marques,Tiago Pires
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Marques,Tiago Pires
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Globalization
Mental health
Psychiatric reforms
Psychiatric epidemiology
Human rights
topic Globalization
Mental health
Psychiatric reforms
Psychiatric epidemiology
Human rights
description This paper analyzes the impact of the hegemonic paradigm of global mental health (GMH) on Portugal. We specifically argue that GMH in Portugal has effected a change of priorities in health policies, favoring the prevention and treatment of common mental disorders to the detriment of the deinstitutionalizing process. Diffused through the media, this model has negative effects, such as the medicalization of social suffering, the reorganization of mental health policy areas according to utilitarian criteria, and the risk of greater invisibility of users with serious psychiatric diagnoses. However, the GMH approach, bringing to the frontline the impact of all social policies on mental health, represents a new opportunity to politically address social suffering. Characterized as a semi-peripheral country, Portugal may be representative of observable trends in similar countries.
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