Debate: Mental health, social crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile

Abstract

Mental health in Chile has been significantly challenged by the beginning of a social crisis in October of 2019 and the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. Despite widening of shortage of services, both the burgeoning of Telepsychiatry and a Presidential Initiative to integrate mental health to policy making and services provided by all sectors of government have mitigated the effects of this crisis.