Más allá de la reducción de los síntomas: Hacia un paradigma estructural y preventivo en salud mental
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Resumen
Mental health has increasingly emerged as a major global public health priority. Contemporary perspectives challenge the traditional view of mental disorders as isolated clinical phenomena, instead recognizing mental health as a multidimensional construct influenced by psychological, social, and structural determinants (World Health Organization [WHO], 2022, 2025a). Current mental health research faces an important limitation: symptom remission does not necessarily translate into psychological well-being, resilience and quality of life. Psychological distress cannot be understood through exclusively biomedical approaches. Rather, mental health should be approached as a dynamic continuum influenced by social relationships, institutional environments, and chronic stress exposure.
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