Critical Events: bio-psycho-social approach at first level care in Montevideo
Keywords:
primary level attention, salutogenesis, resourcesAbstract
This article shows how it is possible for the primary Health Care level to use methodologies and techniques of primary and secondary prevention in the frame of Psychosocial Care for Emergencies and psycho-social support.It is in the Outpatients Department of Primary Health Care in the City of Montevideo, where persons also affected by critical incidents are attended. It stresses the need to train the attending personnel in these techniques based on the fact that prevention and Health promotion as well as the salutogenic concepts for daily work are implemented since several decades in this specific service of the City of Montevideo. A case vignette shows the practical implication.
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