Ethics, psychiatry and mental health

After delimiting the concepts of moral and ethics the author makes a conceptual difference between psychiatry and mental health. He proposes that the former is a medical specialty while the latter is built in the health concept. Psychiatric problems correspond to mental disorders that affect individ...

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Autor principal: Perales,Alberto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios en Bioética, Universidad de Chile 2016
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spelling oai:scielo:S1726-569X20160001000042016-07-26Ethics, psychiatry and mental healthPerales,Alberto ethics psychiatry mental health After delimiting the concepts of moral and ethics the author makes a conceptual difference between psychiatry and mental health. He proposes that the former is a medical specialty while the latter is built in the health concept. Psychiatric problems correspond to mental disorders that affect individual persons while mental health problems, such as underdevelopment and poverty, generalized corruption and violence affect the whole society and interfere with human development and economic growth. To mix up both concepts as if they were synonymous, especially in third world countries, leads to scientific, economic and sociopolitical risks that attempt against their developments as nations.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessCentro Interdisciplinario de Estudios en Bioética, Universidad de ChileActa bioethica v.22 n.1 20162016-06-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1726-569X2016000100004en10.4067/S1726-569X2016000100004
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mental health
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Perales,Alberto
Ethics, psychiatry and mental health
description After delimiting the concepts of moral and ethics the author makes a conceptual difference between psychiatry and mental health. He proposes that the former is a medical specialty while the latter is built in the health concept. Psychiatric problems correspond to mental disorders that affect individual persons while mental health problems, such as underdevelopment and poverty, generalized corruption and violence affect the whole society and interfere with human development and economic growth. To mix up both concepts as if they were synonymous, especially in third world countries, leads to scientific, economic and sociopolitical risks that attempt against their developments as nations.
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title Ethics, psychiatry and mental health
title_short Ethics, psychiatry and mental health
title_full Ethics, psychiatry and mental health
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publisher Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios en Bioética, Universidad de Chile
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