This essay tackles the integration of mental health in Primary Health Care through the matrix support. It brings the different aspects of integration of mental health insertion into primary care and the factors that act as barriers to the process. It discusses the findings of national and international researches about the theme and the common elements to decentralization in mental health. The results allow us to infer that the supervision and the support of experts, the systematic nature of the meetings, the longitudinality, the enablement of both generalist and expert professionals, the coordinated cares in network and the invisible resources perform a central role for the integration of mental health and primary care.
Mental health; Primary Health Care; Matrix Support; Shared Care; Health management