Los trastornos mentales en America Latina y el Caribe: asunto prioritario para las salud publica / Mental disorders in Latin America and the Caribbean: a public health priority
Rev. panam. salud p£blica
; 18(4/5): 229-240, Oct.- Nov. 2005. tab
Artigo
em Espanhol
| MedCarib
| ID: med-17036
Biblioteca responsável:
TT5
Localização: TT5; W1 RE 712AW
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
The growing burden of mental disorders in Latin America and the Caribbean has become too large to ignore. There is a need to know more about the prevelance of mental disorders and the gap between the number of individuals with psychiatric disorders and the number of those persons who remain untreated even though effective treatments exist. Having that knowledge would make it possible to improve advocacy, adopt better policies, formulate innovative intervention programs, and apportion resources commensurate with needs.METHODS:
Data were extracted from the community-based psychiatric epidemiological studies published in Latin America and the Caribbean from 1980 through 2004 that used structured diagnostic instruments and provided prevalance rates. Estimates of the crude rates in Latin America and the Caribbean for the various disorders were determined by calculating the mean and median rates across the studies, by gender. In addition, data on service utilization were reviewed in order to calculate the treatment gap for specific disorders.RESULTS:
Non affective psychosis (including schizophrenia) and an estimated mean one-year prevalence rate of 1.0 percent; major depression, 4.9 percent; and alcohol use abuse or dependence, 5.7 percent. Over one-third of individuals with nonaffective psychosis, over half of those with an anxiety disorder, and some three-fourths of those with alcohol use abuse or dependence did not receive mental health care from either specialized or general health services.CONCLUSIONS:
The current treatment gap in mental health care in Latin America and the Caribbean remains wide. Further, current data likely greatly underestimate the number of untreated individuals. The epidemiological transition and changes in the population structure will further widen the treatment gap in Latin America and the Caribbean unless mental health policies are formulted or updated and programs and services are expanded (AU)
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Coleções:
Bases de dados internacionais
Contexto em Saúde:
ODS3 - Meta 3.5 Prevenção e tratamento do consumo de substâncias psicoativas
Problema de saúde:
Álcool
Base de dados:
MedCarib
Assunto principal:
Saúde Mental
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Região do Caribe
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Política de Saúde
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Recursos em Saúde
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América Latina
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Transtornos Mentais
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Serviços de Saúde Mental
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo diagnóstico
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Fatores de risco
Limite:
Humanos
Idioma:
Espanhol
Revista:
Rev. panam. salud p£blica
Ano de publicação:
2005
Tipo de documento:
Artigo
Instituição/País de afiliação:
Organizacion Panamericana de la Salud/Estados Unidos de America
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Brown University/United States
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Instituto Mexicano de Psiquiatria/Mexico
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Ministerio de Salud/Israel
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Organizacion Mundial de la Salud/Suiza
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Universidad de Concepcion,/Chile
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Universidad de Sao Paulo/Brazil