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0223/2021 - Global mental health: insights FROM an experience of cooperation between Brazil and Italy
Saúde mental global: pistas a partir de uma experiência de cooperação entre Brasil e Itália

Author:

• Isabela Paschoalotto Marques - Marques, I. P. - <isapaschoalotto@hotmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5952-0551

Co-author(s):

• Massimiliano Minelli - Minelli, M. - <massimiliano_minelli@hotmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8511-6090
• Sabrina Helena Ferigato - Ferigato, SH - <sabrinaferigato@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7567-7225
• Taís Quevedo Marcolino - Marcolino, T. Q. - <taisquevedo@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9694-5118


Abstract:

Recognizing the central role of mental health for global health and affirming the complexity of an universalized care policy, this paper discusses aspects of global mental health through a situated inquiry between two countries, Brazil and Italy - potential references for the exchange between global north and south. A collaborative action research, under an ethnographic perspective, took place through a virtual community of practice composed of Brazilians and Italians interested in communitary mental health care. The results are presented in scenes that provide clues to the international debate in at least three aspects: the logic of medical-centered care, the institutionalization of care and the medicalization of suffering, and the contribution of communitary practices and non-specialized local knowledge. The situated scenes give relief to critical globally shared nodes, explaining a plural set of relationships immersed in work and care process. Sharing knowledge and experiences point to what should be universalized: opportunities for horizontal exchange rather than production of national identities that radiate universalizing practices and policies.

Keywords:

Mental health, Mental health assistance, Global health; International cooperation; Anthropology

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Marques, I. P., Minelli, M., Ferigato, SH, Marcolino, T. Q.. Global mental health: insights FROM an experience of cooperation between Brazil and Italy. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2021/Jun). [Citado em 27/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/global-mental-health-insights-from-an-experience-of-cooperation-between-brazil-and-italy/18122



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