Mental Health of the Populations
Code
21196
Academic unit
NOVA Medical School | Faculdade de Ciências Médicas
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Professor Doutor J.M. Caldas de Almeida
Teaching language
English
Objectives
Thematic Unit 1 - Contributions of psychiatric epidemiology to policy and services development
1. Learning the epidemiological data on mental disorders in the general population
2. Learning the epidemiological data on mental disorders in primary care
3. Understanding the concept of needs for care and learning how they can be assessed
4. Understanding the contribution of studies on the use, effectiveness and costs of mental health services and interventions to policy development.
Thematic Unit 2 - Social determinants
1. Understanding the role and the nature of social determinants having an impact on mental ill-health.
2. Understanding the complex links between mental health problems as risk factors of poor socio economic conditions and poor socio economic conditions as risk factors for mental health problems.
Prerequisites
Subject matter
a) Epidemiology of mental disorders
b) Contributions of psychiatric epidemiology for mental health policy and services development
c) Review of the main determinants of mental disorders
Bibliography
1. Regier D, Narrow W, Rupp A et al. The epidemiology of mental disorder treatment need: community estimates of ´medical necessity´. In Gavin Andrews and Scott Henderson (Eds) Unmet needs in Psychiatry: Problems, resources, responses. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000.
2. Wang P, Aguilar-Gaxiola S, AlHamzawi, Alonso J, Andrade L, Angermeyer M, Borges G, Bromet E, Bruffaerts R, Bunting B, Caldas de Almeida JM, Florescu S, de Girolamo G, Graaf R, Gureje O, Haro JM, Hinkov H, Hu C, Karam EG, Kovess V, Lee S, Levinson D, Ono Y, Petukhova M, Posada-Villa J, Sagar R, Seedat S, Wells J, Kessler R. Treated and untreated prevalence of mental disorders: Results from the World Health Organization World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys. G Thornicroft & G. Szmukler (Eds). Oxford Textbook of Community Psychiatry. Oxford Univ. Press. 2011.
3. WHO. Review of literature on poverty (Work document)
4. Saraceno, B, and Barbui, C. (1997). Poverty and Mental Illness. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 42 (3): 285-290.
5. Patel, V, and Kleinman, A. (2003). Poverty and common mental disorders in developing countries. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 81: 609-615.
6. R Araya, G Lewis, G Rojas, R Fritsch. Education and income: which is more important for mental health? J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:15
7. WHO. Social determinants of health: the solid facts. 2nd edition / edited by Richard Wilkinson and Michael Marmot.
Teaching method
Lectures, e-learning activities.
Evaluation method
Multiple-choice question test and assignments.