Abstract

ARDON-CENTENO, Nelson  and  CUBILLOS-NOVELLA, Andrés. Mental health: an insight on its evolution in Colombian law. 1960-2012Saúde mental: um olhar desde a sua evolução na normatividade colombiana. 1960-2012. Rev. Gerenc. Polit. Salud [online]. 2012, vol.11, n.23, pp.12-38. ISSN 1657-7027.

The nature of the concept of mental health and the approaches to which it relates, determine a contextual framework normative political and international, national and district wide, regarding the rights and conditions of life: education, housing, employment, social, economic and environment; Therefore, this article discusses the legislation and policies concerning the mental health of the various population groups, life cycles, ethnicity and gender, to conditions and situations such as poverty, disability (and rehabilitation), displacement and armed conflict, to perform a count in your evolution view through the rules that have been enacted in Colombia from 1960 to the present. Pretending, in addition to making an analysis of the application and development of the same, follow up on the progress made and the different perspectives from which has addressed this legislation; both at the national level, such as in Bogota specifically.

Keywords : mental health; health promotion; urisprudence; population; Colombia; mental health; health promotion; health policy.

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