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Global mental health – problem and response

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Hamid Ghodse
Hamid Ghodse*
Affiliation:
International Psychiatry
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Abstract

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According to the World Health Organization, 450 million people in the world currently suffer from some form of mental or brain disorder, including alcohol and substance misuse. Within this huge number, 121 million people suffer from depression, and more than 800 000 people die by suicide each year, with young people accounting for well over half of these. Projections from 1990 to 2020 suggest that, in future, the proportion of the global burden of all disease accounted for by mental and brain disorders will increase to 15%.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , October 2003 , pp. 1 - 2
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2003

References

World Health Organization (2001) Mental Health: New Understanding, New Hope (World Health Report). Geneva: WHO.Google Scholar
World Health Assembly (2002) Mental Health: Responding to the Call for Action (Report by the Secretariat A55/18). Geneva: WHO.Google Scholar
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