Selected article for: "frontline healthcare and high risk"
Author: Mendes-Santos, Cristina; Andersson, Gerhard; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Santana, Rui
Title: Mitigating COVID-19 Impact on the Portuguese Population Mental Health: The Opportunity That Lies in Digital Mental Health
  • Cord-id: 2cy0tqe5
  • Document date: 2020_11_16
    • ID: 2cy0tqe5
    Snippet: COVID-19 mitigation measures present unprecedented challenges in mental healthcare delivery, posing high risk to the mental health of at-risk populations, namely patients diagnosed with COVID-19, frontline healthcare providers, and those submitted to quarantine or isolation measures, as well as the general population. Ensuring safe and equitable access to mental healthcare by these groups entails resorting to innovative psychosocial intervention strategies, such as digital mental health. In this
    Document: COVID-19 mitigation measures present unprecedented challenges in mental healthcare delivery, posing high risk to the mental health of at-risk populations, namely patients diagnosed with COVID-19, frontline healthcare providers, and those submitted to quarantine or isolation measures, as well as the general population. Ensuring safe and equitable access to mental healthcare by these groups entails resorting to innovative psychosocial intervention strategies, such as digital mental health. In this perspective piece, we describe the impact of COVID-19 on the Portuguese population's mental health, present an overview on initiatives developed to address the challenges currently faced by the Portuguese mental healthcare system, and discuss how the timely implementation of a comprehensive digital mental health strategy, coupling research, education, implementation, and quality assessment initiatives, might buffer COVID-19's impact on the Portuguese society.

    Search related documents:
    Co phrase search for related documents
    • academic agency and acute respiratory syndrome: 1
    • action demand and acute respiratory syndrome: 1
    • actual pandemic and acute respiratory syndrome: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
    • acute respiratory syndrome and adaptation development: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    • acute respiratory syndrome and additional concern: 1, 2
    • acute respiratory syndrome and adequate follow: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5