Resumo Nos últimos anos o Brasil canalizou esforços em torno da agenda global pela saúde dos povos. Em outubro de 2011, com suporte técnico e financeiro do Governo Brasileiro, a Organização Mundial de Saúde organizou no Rio de Janeiro a Conferencia Mundial de Determinantes Sociais da Saúde. A Dec...
Durante el año 2015, Colombia vio la llegada de un segundo arbovirus emergente en su territorio (el primero fue chikungunya en 2014), recordándonos que vivimos en un mundo pequeño y donde las enfermedades se globalizan potencialmente gracias a los viajes internacionales1. Pasaron tan solo unos meses p...
This paper aims at presenting a perspective on a global ethics useful for conducting and evaluating research on global mental health. It includes the proposal of expanding the scope of "global" to include different aspects of cultural diversity and a plea for a "differential ethics" approach that accepts...
Historical and conceptual aspects of Global Health and Global Mental Health are examined and topics such as resources, professional and social attitudes toward mental disorders, the multidimensional experience of getting ill and the presence of world systems of psychiatric diagnosis and classification, a...
Las enfermedades mentales son comunes, crónicas y discapacitantes, y representan un problema de salud pública importante en nuestro país y en todo el mundo. Para las enfermedades mentales más comunes, disponemos actualmente de intervenciones médicas y psicosociales con eficacia probada. Sin embargo,...
Abstract Cancer is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in the world, with 14.1 million new cases and 8.2 million deaths annually. A marked disparity exists between developed countries and developing countries, with 57% of new cases and 65% of deaths in 2012 occurring in developing countrie...
