Concepciones de salud mental en el campo de la salud pública
ABSTRACT: In the field of public health, mental health has had a great deal of relevance. This concept has been used extensively in the professional, academic, and political fields. Despite that, the different definitions of mental health face significant epistemological and practical problems. Thes...
- Autores:
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Restrepo Ochoa, Diego Alveiro
Jaramillo Estrada, Juan Carlos
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of investigation
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2012
- Institución:
- Universidad de Antioquia
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio UdeA
- Idioma:
- spa
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/8562
- Acceso en línea:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10495/8562
- Palabra clave:
- Salud mental
Salud pública
Salud
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
| Summary: | ABSTRACT: In the field of public health, mental health has had a great deal of relevance. This concept has been used extensively in the professional, academic, and political fields. Despite that, the different definitions of mental health face significant epistemological and practical problems. These difficulties are encountered by those who try to specify the meaning of "mental", the relationship between "health" and "mental", and, consequently, how research and intervention actions are to be carried out in the field of mental health. In practice, the orientation of actions and research involving mental health is not based on “universal” definitions in the field of public health. It is rather based on conceptions constructed from different approaches to the health-disease issue. This paper discusses the conceptions of mental health that have been configured from the biomedical, behavioral, and socio-economic approaches, the notions of "mind" underlying these conceptions, and their implications for intervention in the field of public health. |
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