Mental health care in ubiquity

El cuidado de la salud mental y ubicuidad

Abstract

Introduction: The ubiquity in health raises a series of strategies to get health services where and when necessary. The uHealth modality emerged in Korea (2006) in this way has the purpose of improving the quality of life by providing health services, products and information.

Development: Health care in ubiquity includes: eHealth, mHealth, uHeath, and pHealth. In mental health care, an alternative preventive approach to the hospital approach is required that currently prevails and that is more favorable in its coverage, taking advantage of the links generated with users. In this way, promoting mental health through eHealth to prevent mental disorders, provide care, improve recovery, promote human rights and reduce mortality, morbidity and disability of people with mental disorders.

Conclusions: Nursing practice through digital devices promotes new relationships with oneself and with the world and is an opportunity to expand the possibilities of encounter. MHealth considers the practice of care as a responsible and rational act, of the capacity of digital technologies to register multiple bodily and behavioral aspects, the emergence of a digital economy and an exploitable living capital.