{"id":4664,"date":"2026-07-05T15:39:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dementes.programate.pe\/?p=4664"},"modified":"2026-07-20T14:58:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:58:53","slug":"prioridades-para-la-salud-mental-en-peru-y-america-latina-en-el-contexto-electoral-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.dementes.org.pe\/en\/2026\/06\/19\/prioridades-para-la-salud-mental-en-peru-y-america-latina-en-el-contexto-electoral-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental health priorities in Peru and Latin America in the electoral context"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mental health is a priority for sustainable development and global health<\/span><\/strong><\/a>. In a year marked by electoral processes in Peru and other Latin American countries, such as Colombia and Brazil, this issue emerges as an unavoidable priority. However, it remains one of the most overlooked areas on the political agenda.<\/p>\n

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Actualmente,\u00a0m\u00e1s de mil millones de personas en el mundo conviven con una condici\u00f3n de salud mental<\/a>. Al respecto, en Latinoam\u00e9rica y el Caribe, \u00a0se estima que una de cada cuatro personas experimentar\u00e1 una condici\u00f3n de salud mental a lo largo de su vida<\/a>. En el Per\u00fa,\u00a0esta cifra asciende a una de cada tres personas<\/a>. Sin embargo, en promedio,\u00a08 de cada 10 personas que requiere tratamiento en la regi\u00f3n no lo recibe<\/a>, cifra que se repite en Per\u00fa.<\/p>\n

En este contexto, nos aliamos con la\u00a0Global Mental Health Action Network<\/a>\u00a0(Red Global de Acci\u00f3n en Salud Mental, GMHAN por sus siglas en ingl\u00e9s) la principal red mundial de incidencia y activismo en esta \u00e1rea, para elaborar un\u00a0informe de incidencia que presenta evidencia clave y recomendaciones en materia de pol\u00edticas p\u00fablicas para la salud mental\u00a0<\/strong>que los gobiernos de Per\u00fa y otros pa\u00edses de Latinoam\u00e9rica deber\u00edan priorizar e invertir.<\/p>\n

Asimismo, se identificaron cinco \u00e1reas prioritarias de acci\u00f3n,\u00a0en base a\u00a0los compromisos adoptados en diciembre del 2025 por la Asamblea General de la Organizaci\u00f3n de las Naciones Unidas<\/strong>\u00a0(ONU) en la\u00a0declaraci\u00f3n pol\u00edtica<\/a>\u00a0de la Cuarta Reuni\u00f3n de Alto Nivel sobre prevenci\u00f3n y control de enfermedades no transmisibles y promoci\u00f3n de la salud mental y el bienestar:<\/p>\n

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  1. Reforma de los servicios<\/strong>:\u00a0tomar medidas urgentes para poner fin a la institucionalizaci\u00f3n, reorientando progresivamente los recursos hacia servicios integrales de salud mental con enfoque comunitario.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    1. Financiamiento sostenible:\u00a0<\/strong>movilizar y asignar recursos adecuados y sostenidos para promover, prevenir y atender condiciones de salud mental, contemplando recursos nacionales y de la cooperaci\u00f3n bilateral y multilateral.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      1. Abordaje de los determinantes:\u00a0<\/strong>abordar los determinantes sociales, econ\u00f3micos y ambientales de la salud mental, considerando todos los aspectos de la vida de las personas y los riesgos que afectan su salud.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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        1. Salud mental infantil y juvenil:\u00a0<\/strong>adoptar estrategias integrales de promoci\u00f3n, prevenci\u00f3n, intervenci\u00f3n temprana y atenci\u00f3n a lo largo del ciclo de vida, e implementar medidas urgentes para la prevenci\u00f3n del suicidio y la depresi\u00f3n.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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          1. Social participation<\/strong><\/span>: implement, strengthen, and sustain meaningful and ongoing participation of people with lived experience of mental health conditions, including young people, in decision-making processes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            This document includes key data and information on the Peruvian national context, contextualizing international recommendations within the local reality.<\/p>\n

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            This report seeks to guide the mental health agenda of future governments. It also aims to support candidates, political parties, and civil society in recognizing mental health\u2014particularly the mental health of children, adolescents, and young people\u2014as a public policy priority.<\/p>\n

            This document was developed in March 2026 by Lucero Andaluz Llerena (De-Mentes, Peru), with contributions from Carolina D\u00edaz Pimentel (Peruvian Neurodivergent Coalition), Luiz Roberto Carvalho (Soulbeegood | Vertentes Ecossistema de Sa\u00fade Mental, Brazil), and Viviana Garz\u00f3n (Mixera FUND, Colombia), Latin American advocates and members of the Global Mental Health Action Network, with the support of Antonis Kousoulis and Divya Sharma from the Network\u2019s Secretariat.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            In a year marked by elections in Peru and other Latin American countries, such as Colombia and Brazil, mental health has emerged as an unavoidable priority. This report presents key evidence and public policy recommendations for the next administrations.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,32],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-4664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-incidencia","category-politica","tag-publicaciones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.dementes.org.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.dementes.org.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.dementes.org.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.dementes.org.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.dementes.org.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4664"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/staging.dementes.org.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6750,"href":"https:\/\/staging.dementes.org.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions\/6750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.dementes.org.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.dementes.org.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.dementes.org.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.dementes.org.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}