SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 15 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Juana Reyes Foundation has presented today Wednesday the campaign ‘Mental Health and Well-being of Women’, which makes visible how and what external factors cause symptoms of anxiety and depression in women and which will be broadcast on the screens of the health centers of the Canary Islands Health Service (SCS).
The details of this campaign have been released at a press conference attended, as participating entities, by the president of the Juana Reyes Foundation, Isabel Aguilar; the specialist doctor in Psychiatry Natacha Sujanani; the coordinator of Mental Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, Natalia González; Silvia Casas, from the Lundbeck entity; and the vice president of the Official College of Dentists of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Vanesa Martín.
The ‘Women’s Mental Health and Well-being’ campaign aims to reflect the connection between physical health and mental health and how other medical disciplines are capable of detecting mental illness and the difficulties that patients have to recognize this condition outside of this field.
Thus, this project is made up of four videos that include a series of interviews or short dialogues with the director of the Canary Islands Health Service, Elizabeth Hernández; Dr. Natacha Sujanani; the gynecologist Gorka Barrenetxea and the dentist Coral Malfaz Vázquez.
These videos aim to influence the importance of mental health care, especially in women, since the prevalence of depression in women doubles that of men, as indicated by some studies and surveys carried out by official organizations in our country. Thus, in the most serious cases, for every case in men there are 3.5 that are women. Regarding anxiety, some studies also speak of the female prevalence.
Canarias is making progress in mental health but, as Natacha Sujanani stated in her message, there are still many disorders in the closet. “We must also consider the steps that are being taken by the institutions, but we must challenge ourselves as a support network with the potential of the community for the next stage, especially so that physical health and health are connected mental health, and that mental health problems have the least possible impact on our health. That is why it is essential to incorporate different medical disciplines”.
It is important that this message reaches society and that is why the Fundación Juana Reyes has considered the involvement of the institutions from the outset, which is why this campaign is available in the SCS health centers, where it can be seen by patients and users.
