HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIAL VULNERABILITY,AND FREEDOM-BASED CARE IN MENTAL HEALTH
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https://doi.org/10.26823/5cwkyf77Palavras-chave:
Direitos humanos, Vulnerabilidade social, Saúde mental, Cuidado em liberdade, Reforma PsiquiátricaResumo
This article presents a systematic review that articulates human rights, social vulnerability, and mental health, with emphasis on the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform and the Psychosocial Care Network (RAPS). The objective is to analyze how vulnerability conditions impact access to the right to mental health and how care in freedom operates as either a realization or denial of fundamental rights.
Fifty-two publications were selected from SciELO, LILACS, PubMed, and CAPES Journals databases (2010–2025). Results indicate that socioeconomic inequalities, structural racism, sexism, and LGBTQIA+phobia constitute barriers to service access and produce psychological suffering. Care in freedom, sustained by interdisciplinary teams and territorial practices, proves more effective when
guided by human rights principles, although challenges persist regarding financing, professional training, and resistance to asylum-based models. The study concludes that intersectoral policies, strengthening of the RAPS, and confrontation of structural vulnerabilities are necessary.
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