Jumat, 24 Oktober 2008

Global crisis, Psychiatric Disorders Caution!

Global financial crisis seems to be improving mental health disorder and even suicide, while people struggled to poverty and unemployment, warning that the World Health Organization (WHO).

Hundreds of millions of people worldwide are affected by the influence of mental disturbance such as depression and bipolar disturbances and the current decline in the market can increase the serious sense of disappointment among the people vulnerable to such diseases.

WHO also states, the impact can be seen in the people who live in low-income and middle, with limited access to care.
"We need not look surprised or low bumps and the consequences that may appear due to the current financial crisis. As we see gape wide gulf in care who is in need," said WHO Director General Margaret Chan in meeting the mental health experts.

Poverty and the pressure associated with it, including violence, social excommunication, and "ongoing insecurity" associated with the emergence mental disturbance, he said. "No need to be surprised that we continue to witness harassment, suicide, and the pressure further," said Chan.

Chan disapprovingly "how big the lack of care" for some mental health patients, especially in low-income and middle, where two of the four people. Government should make mental health as an important part of primary health care, he said.

Benedetto Saraceno, Director of the Department of Materials Chemistry misuse of Mental Health and the WHO, said mental health disorder affects one in four people from one point of their lives.

Nervous and mental disturbances are often chronic and disabling, he said. Almost one million people to make suicide worldwide each year, many of them young adults.

When asked about the financial crisis, Saraceno said, "Poverty can be the result of the incident semamcam, debt, disappointment and loss of control that may reach the bottom and the middle class. Even poor people can be affected by this crisis."

"There is clear evidence that the suicides related to financial disaster. I'm not talking about the millionaire who jump from the window but about poor people," he said.

Estimated global crisis can affect the "stability of families and communities," said Saraceno. WHO launched a program in the second week of October, the annual World Mental Health Day, which is intended to improve funding and services for people with mental illness for six years into the future.

More than 75 percent of people suffering from mental disturbances in the world do not get the care or treatment, and many people, she neglected and a victim of harassment, said the world body.

Globally, the WHO says most countries to less than 2 percent of their national health budget to mental health.

"I believe that even in middle-income countries affected by the economic crisis, it means lack of money and access to care," said Saraceno.

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