Telepsychiatry and healthcare access inequities during the COVID-19 pandemic

Rodrigo Ramalho; Frances Adiukwu; Drita Gashi Bytyçi; Samer El Hayek; Jairo M. Gonzalez-Diaz; Amine Larnaout; Paolo Grandinetti; Ganesh Kudva Kundadak; Marwa Nofal; Victor Pereira-Sanchez; Mariana Pinto da Costa; Ramdas Ransing; Andre Luiz Schuh Teixeira; Mohammadreza Shalbafan; Joan Soler-Vidal; Zulvia Syarif; Laura Orsolini

doi:10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102234

Telepsychiatry and healthcare access inequities during the COVID-19 pandemic

Rodrigo Ramalho, Frances Adiukwu, Drita Gashi Bytyçi, Samer El Hayek, Jairo M. Gonzalez-Diaz, Amine Larnaout, Paolo Grandinetti, Ganesh Kudva Kundadak, Marwa Nofal, Victor Pereira-Sanchez, Mariana Pinto da Costa, Ramdas Ransing, Andre Luiz Schuh Teixeira, Mohammadreza Shalbafan, Joan Soler-Vidal, Zulvia Syarif, Laura Orsolini

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Somos un equipo de psiquiatras de países que representan a las seis regiones de la Organización Mundial de la Salud. Durante la pandemia de COVID-19, los departamentos de salud mental de nuestros países se han visto obligados a cerrar la mayoría de los servicios ambulatorios e incluso algunas unidades de hospitalización, y los psiquiatras a menudo han sido destinados a unidades médicas para hacer frente a la pandemia. Estas medidas han puesto a prueba la capacidad de estos departamentos para atender a la población, debido a la mayor demanda de sus servicios y a las crecientes dificultades para prestar asistencia in situ. Aun así, el papel de la atención de salud mental ha seguido siendo crucial durante estos tiempos de crisis (Tandon, 2020). Ya hemos sido testigos de cómo la telepsiquiatría ha demostrado ser un recurso vital para la prestación de atención de salud mental, y hemos hecho un llamamiento para su uso en todas las fases de la pandemia (Ransing et al., 2020). Sin embargo, aún no se sabe con certeza si la forma en que los distintos servicios sanitarios se han adaptado a la COVID-19, una adaptación que a menudo ha incluido la adopción de cuidados de salud mental, podrá resistir la pandemia (Kavoor et al., 2020).

Idioma original	Inglés estadounidense
Número de artículo	102234
Publicación	Asian Journal of Psychiatry
Volumen	53
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102234
Estado	Publicada - jun. 16 2020

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Ramalho, R., Adiukwu, F., Gashi Bytyçi, D., El Hayek, S., Gonzalez-Diaz, J. M., Larnaout, A., Grandinetti, P., Kundadak, G. K., Nofal, M., Pereira-Sanchez, V., Pinto da Costa, M., Ransing, R., Schuh Teixeira, A. L., Shalbafan, M., Soler-Vidal, J., Syarif, Z., & Orsolini, L. (2020). Telepsychiatry and healthcare access inequities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 53, Artículo 102234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102234

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