The sustainable development goals and mental health: discussion in the light of the sustainable development concept in Amazon contexts

Since the end of the last century, the world has been in need of reconstructing its definitions of development. However, only the definition of sustainability was not enough for the necessary development reformulations of nations, with that, general measures were created, acting as parameters for a new development model, called Sustainable Development Goals, comprised of 17 objectives, the SDGs serve as guidelines for decision-making in numerous aspects that interferers in the notion of sustainability, among them health promotion. It is known that the concept of health is broad and encompasses countless factors; mental health is one of them and is in constant questioning, due to its invisibility in sustainable guidelines and international documents, contradicting worldwide alarming data of illness. Faced with the questioning of the importance of mental health in sustainability, this article sought to discuss the concept of mental health in the Sustainable Development Goals, using the Amazon as a contextual focus, in view of the region's diversity.