Promoting the mental health of health professionals

Objective: identifying the requirements and the main measures adopted to promote the mental health of health workers. Method: an integrative review conducted in the period from the 1st to 25th August 2014, from the virtual health library in the databases LILACS, MEDLINE and SciELO. There were investigated articles from the last four years in Portuguese. Applying inclusion criteria, it came to a total of 07 articles. Results: the promotion of mental health at work becomes of paramount importance to achieve emotional balance of health professionals, as well as to understand the causes of eventual disruptions of this balance. Conclusions: it registers the need to put in practice actions that promote the mental health of these subjects. Descriptors: Health Promotion, Mental health, Health personnel.