DEATH EDUCATION IN UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION IN THE FACE OF SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF MENTAL HEALTH IN THE PANDEMIC

Abstract

The pandemic caused by the new coronavirus reinforced the idea that the social determinants of health, related to occupational conditions, directly affect the mental health of professionals working in primary, secondary and tertiary levels of health care. Thus, the present study aimed to review in the scientific literature which teaching methodologies used in death education, during medical graduation, in face of the social determinants of mental health during the pandemic of the new coronavirus. For this, a review was made in the scientific databases SciELO, PubMed and Periódicos Capes, using the descriptors "Emergencies" AND "Mental Health"; "Coronavirus" AND "Mental Health"; "Health Education" AND "Coronavirus"; "Health Education" AND "Coronavirus"; "Coronavirus" AND "Health Education" AND "Mental Health". The result identified, after the analysis of seven articles, was: the pedagogical planning of the health education activity should be aimed at overcoming the fact that farewell rites have relevance, since observing/seeing the deceased person ensures the subjectivity of the individual, who perceives the rupture of the bonds of coexistence, the conditionings of the real state that, although hurting, are essential for the ratification of the absence of interaction with the one whose life has come to an end.