Plano de ações na promoção e prevenção de transtornos em saúde mental na atenção primária à saúde

Abstract

This paper aims to review the main causes that negatively influence the monitoring of mental disorders in Primary Health Care (PHC). A literature survey was conducted on the subject in order to reflect on the number of patients living with mental disorder, monitoring and providing new alternatives to treatment. The methodological approach was a literature review of the prevalence of common mental disorders attended in PHC according to the psychiatric reform and the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric patients. The mental health care in Brazil has been undergoing a process of change, driven mainly by the psychiatric reform and is a key to the integrity of care and to establish an interface between Primary Health Services and Mental Health Services. It is essential for comprehensive care that Primary Health Care established an interface with the Mental Health Services.