“The paradigm is being changed with this reform, we are in a way trying to overcome the twenty years of delay compared to the situation in more developed countries”, says Ana Matos Pires, member of the National Coordination of Health Policies
“Mental health in Portugal needs to improve, we are the second country in Europe with the highest prevalence”, recalls Filipa Mota e Costa, general director of Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine
“In these types of more prevalent pathologies, such as anxiety and depression, which are high in our population, there is a way to go first in literacy (…) and then, in terms of prevention, in the creation of strategies that ensure that people they seek help when necessary” João Bessa, president of the Portuguese Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health
“In relation to mental health policies, fortunately we have good policies, good measures that have been created, but which now need to be implemented and developed”, considers Joaquina Castelão, president of Familiarmente – Portuguese Federation of Associations of Families of People with Experience of Illness Mental
“There is also here, in terms of health literacy, the issue of information and the dissemination of knowledge and then the availability of resources so that – having the knowledge and the need – people can have this support, which at the moment is not a reality accessible to the majority of Portuguese”, guarantees Sofia Tavares, professor at the University of Évora
SIC Notícias – with the support of Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine and in collaboration with the Familiarmente association – launches a project to talk about mental health. This project is supported by sponsors, with all content created, edited and produced by Expresso (see Code of Conduct), without external interference.
Source: expresso.pt
