Mental health of the populations
Code
101187
Academic unit
NOVA Medical School | Faculdade de Ciências Médicas
Credits
2
Teacher in charge
Professor Doutor Fernando Miguel Teixeira Xavier
Teaching language
English
Objectives
By the end of the course students should be able to:
1. Critically discuss the social and economic determinants of mental health, namely gender, age, culture, employment, education, poverty, housing and urbanization.
2. Know and analyze the results on the prevalence and burden of mental disorders, and co morbidity of mental and physical disorders, and discuss their implications for mental health policy.
3. Understand the components of public mental health and the types of interventions addressing the general population, vulnerable groups, at risk populations and individuals.
4. Analyze the results of research on stigma and discrimination, utilization of services and treatment gap, as well as barriers in implementation of effective interventions.
5. Develop research projects with adequate methods in the area of public mental health.
Prerequisites
n/a
Subject matter
1. Epidemiology of mental disorders
2. Contributions of psychiatric epidemiology for mental health policy and services development Review of the main determinants of mental disorders
3. Review of main determinants of mental health;
4. Components of public mental health
a. Stigma and discrimination associated to mental disorders
b. The global burden of diseases attributable to mental, neurological and substance use disorders
c. Types of gaps related to services provided for mental disorders care: resources, infrastructure, funding, access, quality of care
d. Barriers preventing the implementation of cost effective and human interventions.
5. Research in public mental health: Methodological issues
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. WHO. Social determinants of health: the solid facts. 2nd edition / edited by Richard Wilkinson and Michael Marmot.
3. Saraceno B, Freeman M Funk M. (2009). Public Mental Health. In: Detels R, Beaglehole R, Lansang M, Gulliford M: Oxford Textbook of Public Health, 5th edition. 1081-1100. Oxford University Press, New York.
4. Caldas de Almeida JM & Aguilar-Gaxiola S. The burden of mental disorders: implications for policy.. In Alonso J, Chatterji S & He Y (eds). The Burdens of Mental Disorders: Global Perspectives from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys. New York: Cambridge University Press; 2013. pp: 1-319.
Teaching method
Teaching: Lectures and group work.
Evaluation method
Evaluation: elaboration of papers and elaboration of a research project in the area of Mental Health of the Populations.
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