Abstract

MINGOTE ADAN, José Carlos et al. Preventive usefulness of the concept "serious mental disorder" in social-sanitary area. Med. segur. trab. [online]. 2010, vol.56, n.221, pp.306-322. ISSN 1989-7790.

Introduction: The concept of "serious mental disorder" (SMD) can be very useful in clinical medical practice, not only in the management resources area, allowing to design preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic effective interventions, but also in service area and in high reliability and security professions, such as health, defence, transport and so on. In these cases mistakes use to have direct and adverse consequences for people's life that is way a maximum quality and safety must be guaranteed for the users. Objective: To check the principal aspects to consider in the production of intervention protocols for mental serious disorders in the workplace. Method: Review of the available bibliography. Conclusions: This article proposes tools and procedures to deal with serious clinical cases in health professional field in order to improve the attendance quality, contributing to the safety of the health workers and users.

Keywords : Serious mental health; Diagnostic criteria; Prevention; Intervention.

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