From Mad in Mexico: The Western health paradigm has gone from public health to community health. Therefore, it endorses or promotes actions that respond to the proposals of the World Health Organization (WHO) discussed from the Alma Ata Conference (1978) to the present day. But, particularly for what it does to Latin America, it also involves the demanicomialization proposed by the Caracas Declaration (1990) and emerged from the “Conference on the Restructuring of Psychiatric Care in Latin America” in Caracas, Venezuela, organized by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and other entities. Regardless of the progress that this last platform could report, for my part I join the criticism that is made of the de-manicomialization, about atomizing the asylum instead of achieving an effective closure of institutions.
Read the Spanish article here and the English translation here.
