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Francisco Ortega

2 papers in the library · 21 citations · publishing 2022-2024

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Improving patient-centered mental health promotion in primary care in vulnerable communities through mindfulness training in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Frontiers in Medicine 2024 Débora Silva Teixeira, Sandra Fortes, Celia Kestenberg et al. 8 citations

Brazilian Primary Health Care (PHC) is responsible for all-sanitary actions for a community-based population, including health promotion and mental health care. Mindfulness Based Health Promotion (MBHP) is an intervention that can promote self-care and psychosocial support in PHC. To discuss the effects of mindfulness based psychosocial group interventions for health promotion in primary care...

The woman who chose the terreiro. Lay care and medical landscapes in mental health care in Rio de Janeiro.

Anthropology & medicine December 1, 2022 Manuela R Müller, Francisco Ortega, Angel Martínez-Hernáez 13 citations

Brazilian mental health care reform understands mental health as a complex social process. There is a large literature production within the country focused on deinstitutionalization policy, social determinants of mental health and human rights, however, with little recognition beyond Latin American borders. In addition, cultural dimensions of mental suffering have been neglected in Brazilian...