El Suicidio en Colombia Seguimiento a la Política Nacional de Salud Mental

Abstract

The following research article aims to monitor the National Mental Health Policy regarding suicide in Colombia during the COVID-19 pandemic. The National Mental Health Policy in Colombia emerged in 2018 with the resolution 4886/2018, through this policy and also with the program regarding the prevention of mental problems and disorders, suicide, interpersonal violence and epilepsy; it sought to place mental health as a priority agenda for the country. However, after the declaration of the economic, social and ecological emergency as a result of the effects produced by COVID-19, the problem around mental health increased. That is why, in this investigation, a follow-up will be carried out around this policy specifically regarding the problem of suicide, taking into account that it was one of the most affected phenomena during the pandemic and indeed the one that requires immediate attention, where the State has a set of obligations that must be provided efficiently and continuously to all the inhabitants of the national territory. For the present investigation, the qualitative method was developed, whose purpose is the interpretation of the present phenomenon, through the collection and analysis of information through the review of books, documents and magazines; and conducting interviews. According to Sampieri (2014), the qualitative approach represents the use of data collection to refine research questions or discover new questions in the interpretation process. Therefore, for this research article, an extensive search was carried out with documents and with some databases such as the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, the National Planning Department, among others. Through this review, an interpretive perspective was developed based on understanding the scope that the COVID-19 pandemic has had during the National Mental Health Policy regarding suicide in Colombia and the eventual effectiveness of the decisions made by the actors involved. , since it is considered that suicide brings together different problems that require a solution in the shortest possible time, and therefore the public policies carry with them the fundamental principle of good government so that the Colombian government responds to the public demands presented by the population and thus further decreases the suicide rate in the country.