Ups and down of public policy in mental health and their social-comunity atention

• Main Author: Renata Bega Martínez
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de Chile 2020-11-01
• Series: Revista Estudios de Políticas Públicas
• Online Access: https://revistaestudiospoliticaspublicas.uchile.cl/index.php/REPP/article/view/58621

This article will attempt to analyze public policies aimed to mental health in the argentine territory, fundamentally those related to the socio-community care modality and its implementation once it has been established as one of the main objectives of the National Mental Health Plan; in that matter, it will seek to highlight its main characteristics and devices throughout the 2014-2019 period, and then rethink from a critical perspective the main barriers and challenges in pursuit of its effectiveness as a comprehensive public policy, with a human rights-oriented perspective of the citizens to whom it is addressed. Finally, it can be concluded that, despite the satisfactory experiences and significant progress in what is proposed by the National Mental Health Plan, community care in mental health as a comprehensive and national public policy is up to now a challenge and a pending objective but with possible alternatives to achieve it.