| Titre : | Comprehensive integrated primary mental health care for South Africa. Pipedream or possibility ? (2000) |
| Auteurs : | I. PETERSEN |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Social science and medicine (vol. 51, n° 3, 2000) |
| Pagination : | 321-334 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | Soins ; Santé mentale ; Soins santé primaire ; Homme ; Système santé ; Afrique ; République sud africaine |
| Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST 7R0xKHNX. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. While the vision for restructuring health care in South Africa is based on a comprehensive primary health care system, care at the primary level remains largely biomedical in orientation. Given this, I argue that whilst adding mental health care to primary level care may increase accessibility of psychiatric care, it will not, however, provide for comprehensive integrated primary mental health care as planned. This would require a paradigm shift towards a comprehensive discourse of care which includes mental health care While efforts towards reorienting health care personnel in South Africa towards the primary health care approach have been initiated, an examination of the primary health care system in one sub-district in South Africa, reveals that the delivery of biomedical care is sustained by a number of factors within the primary health care system as well as within the macro-context A shift in the paradigm of care provided would therefore require the transformation of the system on many fronts. Of central importance would be the restructuring of the primary health care system to he supportive of emotional labour, health promotion, empowerment of service users and of care which takes the subjectivity of the illness experience for the patient into account. |
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