Projeto Semente: Pregnancy and First years of Life
To promote the mental health of pregnant women with psychiatric disorders and their children during the first years of life
Promoter: Hospital Professor Doutor Fernando da Fonseca
Target group: Pregnant women, babies
Territorial reach: District of Lisbon
Duration: 3 years
SDG: 3. Good Health and Well-being
This initiative promotes the mental health of pregnant women with psychiatric disorders and their children who live in the municipalities of Amadora and Sintra, an extensive geographical area of great population density and multicultural diversity, a low level of education and scarce economic resources, served by the Professor Fernando da Fonseca Hospital.
Based on the assumption that the provision of care in the first years of life is essential to future health and well-being, the project aims at fostering the qualification of such care by promoting a multidisciplinary approach. The project hopes to mitigate psychosocial risk factors, such as poverty and poor health indicators, and to promote mental health, especially amongst the more vulnerable populations.
The project, coordinated by a team of psychiatrists from the Fernando da Fonseca Hospital’s Department of Psychiatry, aims at promoting early intervention in mental health by identifying and monitoring cases through consultations at Healthcare Centres, thereby reducing inequality and making social services, education and mental health care more accessible.
Sustainable Development Goals
This project contributes to the following SDG target:
Target 3.4
By 2030, reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being.