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Benedetto Saraceno
Researcher at Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Publications - 124
Citations - 8388
Benedetto Saraceno is an academic researcher from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Health policy. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 118 publications receiving 7168 citations. Previous affiliations of Benedetto Saraceno include Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research & University of Geneva.
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Mental and social health during and after acute emergencies: emerging consensus?
TL;DR: In terms of early interventions, this agreement is exemplified by the recent inclusion of a mental and social aspects of health standard in the Sphere handbook's revision on minimal standards in disaster response as mentioned in this paper.
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Reversing hard won victories in the name of human rights: a critique of the General Comment on Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Melvyn Freeman,Kavitha Kolappa,José Miguel Caldas de Almeida,Arthur Kleinman,Nino Makhashvili,Sifiso Phakathi,Benedetto Saraceno,Graham Thornicroft +7 more
TL;DR: The General Comment on Article 12 of the CRPD threatens to undermine critical rights for persons with mental disabilities, including the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health, access to justice, theright to liberty, and the right to life.
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Trends in mortality from suicide, 1965-99.
Fabio Levi,C. La Vecchia,C. La Vecchia,C. La Vecchia,F. Lucchini,E. Negri,Shekhar Saxena,Pallab K. Maulik,Benedetto Saraceno +8 more
TL;DR: Analysis of trends in mortality from suicide over the period 1965-99 finds that the number of people taking their own lives has increased with age, race, and gender has also changed.
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Overview of the mental health system in Mozambique: addressing the treatment gap with a task-shifting strategy in primary care
Palmira Fortunato Dos Santos,Milton L. Wainberg,José Miguel Caldas-de-Almeida,Benedetto Saraceno,Jair de Jesus Mari +4 more
TL;DR: The task-shifting strategy focused on services delivered in primary care by psychiatric technicians, mid-level professionals, allowed the expansion of mental health services for all the country districts and the reduction of treatment gap in Mozambique.