Mental health in Brazil in times of neoliberalism and pandemic

Retrogression and Resistance

Bibliographic Data

ID3094451
AuthorsCláudia Freitas De Oliveira (0000-0001-7608-6179, Universidade Federal do Ceará, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume31
Pagese2024017-e2024017
Publication date2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistória Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0104-5970 • E-ISSN: 1678-4758
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0104-59702024000100017en
PMID38775519
OpenAlexW4397008447
SCIELO_PIDS0104-59702024000100208
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited10

This study analyzes aspects of mental health in Brazil as an active political field involving a range of social segments and actors from opposing fields in a context of advancing neoliberalism and pandemic. The analysis begins in 2016, when fiscal austerity entered the national agenda, and proceeds through the pandemic until the present day, when both phenomena continue to prevail, even if the intensity of the pandemic is now reduced. In the ambit of mental health, the national policy based on the principles of the psychiatric reform has suffered severe setbacks. Nonetheless, despite state-sponsored efforts to discourage social control and public participation, important sectors of society are engaged in active resistance

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Biology · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Development economics · Economics · Mental health · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Pandemic · Political economy · Political science · Psychiatry · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Health, Nursing, Elderly Care · Internal Medicine · Medicine · Virology · Youth, Drugs, and Violence

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