Abstract

GONCALVES, Inês Carvalho  and  SILVA, António Freitas. Visiting the homeless people. Rev Port Med Geral Fam [online]. 2021, vol.37, n.1, pp.76-78.  Epub Jan 01, 2021. ISSN 2182-5173.  https://doi.org/10.32385/rpmgf.v37i1.12660.

The street is still home to many people. The forgotten and rarely asked question is why. We readily conclude that they are people in precarious conditions, and we associate the street with poverty. But we often forget a fundamental issue, mental health. As residents of general and family medicine, during our internship at Clínica 3 - Serviço de Psiquiatria Geral e Transcultural of the Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa (CHPL), we had the opportunity to observe this reality more closely, accompanying the team led by Dr. António Bento. With this experience we conclude that this is a problem that is also in our hands. However, to prevent and act it is necessary to know the reality and, above all, to realize that the issue of homelessness is often more than a social problem, being also a matter of psychiatric pathology.

Keywords : Homeless; Mental health..

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