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URREGO MENDOZA, Zulma. Analysis of the Situation of Mental Health in Colombia, 1974-2004. rev.colomb.psiquiatr. [online]. 2007, vol.36, n.2, pp.307-319. ISSN 0034-7450.

Background: This article explores various concepts of mental health in Colombian official studies spanning 30 years. Objective: To explore the methods used for conceptualizing mental health and the health situation in a set of studies carried out in Colombia between 1974- 2004. Methods: Identification, recompilation, and analysis of documents of primary sources, in light of the categories of study selected through the previous review of secondary sources following the parameters of historiographical analysis. Outcomes: The concept of mental health as the absence of mental disease is the prevailing concept, as well as the characterization of the situation of mental health/disease from out-of-context epidemiological perspectives, without any continuity among the different studies in relation to the methodology or analytical categories. Conclusions: It is necessary to consider problems in the field of mental health from a perspective linking the current times to historical processes, allowing for the exposure of their configuration, as well as for the planning of studies that permit the analysis of trends.

Palabras clave : Mental health; public health; Colombia.

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