{"id":51216,"date":"2020-07-07T12:50:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T12:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hospitalarias.org\/en\/?p=51216"},"modified":"2020-07-07T12:50:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T12:50:16","slug":"what-attention-is-being-given-to-the-medical-problems-of-people-with-mental-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hospitalarias.org\/en\/what-attention-is-being-given-to-the-medical-problems-of-people-with-mental-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Attention to people with mental illness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The issue is old and has been the subject of debate frequently guided by excessive ideological arguments and rarely focused on the needs of the sick person. Today there is still no satisfactory answer. By who, where and how should medical care be provided for people with long-term mental illness?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The pandemic that the world is trying to solve has so far killed some 400,000 people and nearly 7 million have been affected in 213 countries. The clinical picture triggers an acute respiratory syndrome of varying complexity, and although it affects everyone equally, some people are more at risk. People with previous clinical conditions, such as advanced age, suffering from previous medical or psychiatric pathologies and residing in communities or residential institutions, are at higher risk.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we go back a little in time, we will all remember the lobby to \ndeinstitutionalize mental illness in the 80s and 90s, which had as its \ncentral idea the closure of large psychiatric institutions and the \nassimilation of the person with mental illness into the community. \nWithin this concept, the person with a mental illness should preferably \nreceive primary care so that general doctors treat them for all their \nhealth problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the person with a long-term mental illness cannot be treated for their health problems in the primary care model, which is highly oriented to the treatment of uncomplicated chronic diseases and primary and secondary prevention and has a focused management principle in the results with an evaluation of services which is exclusively quantitative. <\/strong>What has happened over the years is something that many have witnessed and recognized, but it is an issue that still needs to be debated and requires repair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reality of the pandemic has only brought to light what we already knew:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n