Prevenção em psiquiatria

Leonardo Rodrigo Baldaçara; Luiz Carlos Illafont Coronel

doi:10.25118/issn.2965-1832.2017.760

Authors

Leonardo Rodrigo Baldaçara Universidade Federal do Tocantins, UFT, Palmas, TO, Brasil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5201-8515
Luiz Carlos Illafont Coronel Médico Psiquiatra

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25118/issn.2965-1832.2017.760

Keywords:

prevention in psychiatry, psychiatry, mental health, preventive procedures against diseases, primary health care

Abstract

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the definition of health is linked not only to the absence of disease, but to a complete state of physical, mental and social well-being. Still according to the WHO, the prevention and treatment of certain mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia and depression, for example, directly contributes to the reduction of rates such as suicide. Early recognition and treatment of depression, alcohol dependence and schizophrenia, for example, are important strategies. Even so, prevention in psychiatry and mental health is still very complex.