Saúde mental na Atenção Primária à Saúde no contexto pós-enchentes no Rio Grande do Sul: Reflexões para a Educação Permanente em Saúde

Georgius Cardoso Esswein; Fernando Pedrini Possebon; Maria Leonor Gonsales Martins  da Silva; Daniela Centenaro Levandowski; Luciana Suárez Grzybowski

doi:10.1590/SciELOPreprints.15625

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Georgius Cardoso Esswein Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6757-1954
- Conceptualization
- Data Curation
- Formal Analysis
- Investigation
- Supervision
- Validation
- Visualization
- Writing – Original Draft Preparation
- Writing – Review & Editing
- Project Administration
Fernando Pedrini Possebon Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8739-2197
- Conceptualization
- Data Curation
- Formal Analysis
- Investigation
- Writing – Original Draft Preparation
- Writing – Review & Editing
Maria Leonor Gonsales Martins da Silva Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5099-6270
- Conceptualization
- Data Curation
- Formal Analysis
- Investigation
- Writing – Review & Editing
- Writing – Original Draft Preparation
Daniela Centenaro Levandowski Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6338-7287
- Conceptualization
- Data Curation
- Formal Analysis
- Investigation
- Project Administration
- Supervision
- Validation
- Visualization
- Writing – Original Draft Preparation
- Writing – Review & Editing
Luciana Suárez Grzybowski Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8471-2421
- Conceptualization
- Data Curation
- Formal Analysis
- Investigation
- Project Administration
- Supervision
- Validation
- Visualization
- Writing – Original Draft Preparation
- Writing – Review & Editing

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.15625

Keywords:

Health Education, Mental Health, Primary Health Care, Climate Change

Abstract

Climate disasters such as the one that occurred in Rio Grande do Sul (RS), a state in southern Brazil, in 2024, have the potential to generate or aggravate mental health (MH) demands. National Primary Health Care (PHC) Policy sets this level of care as fundamental in supporting territories undergoing reconstruction, as well as in coordinating the MH network, mainly considering its advantageous position within those areas. Nevertheless, literature has identified several challenges in this area related, among other aspects, to professional training, which demands new Ongoing Health Education (OHE) practices. This article explores the importance of PHC in addressing the mental health needs of individuals and communities during the post-flood period in RS, considering the effects of this climate disaster on the population’s mental health, and presents an OHE strategy to strengthen mental health care in this context. This strategy for dealing with MH demands, which is currently being implemented, is called Technical-Reflective Education and was based on the assumptions of OHE, which values the experiences and subjectivity of health professionals, without disregarding the technical aspects necessary for working in the MH field.