PUBLIC POLICIES IN THE PROVINCE OF ENTRE RIOS RELATED TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ACTIONS TO PROMOTE HEALTH, WITH EMPHASIS ON THE ISSUE OF SUICIDE IN ADOLESCENTS AND YOUTH IN PARANA

Cetta, María Agustina

Abstract

The suicide rate in the adolescent population and youth of Entre Rios is rising and the statistics are higher than the values seen in the national statistics, thus configuring it as a public health problem. Faced with the tension between the sustained and accelerated growth in the suicide rate in adolescents and youth and the implementation of public policies, this study seeks to focus on the actions that promote health as a part of a fundamental strategy of Atención Primaria de la Salud- Attention to Health First- (APS)- and to make explicit the challenges in public policy in the province of Entre Rios regarding
the implementation of actions to promote health with regard to suicide in adolescents and youth in the city of de Paraná. The findings show these challenges to be: the intensity of practices based on the inter-sectorial, co-responsibility and networks as an integral approach to complex issues. The participation of adolescents and youth in the formulation, implementation and evaluation of public policy; generating and sustaining spaces for communities and groups as a way of working with adolescents and youth; intensifying actions related to research on epidemiology that enables knowing about the situation at a local level and taking action in accordance with the said information; the evaluation of public policy as a fundamental part of the cycle of public policy; the setting aside of resources, in keeping with
the relevance of the issue at a local and provincial level and in actions to promote health specifically; and the continuity of the existence of the Programme and its actions.