The World Health Organization (WHO) has published new data, according to which more than one billion people live with mental health disorders – anxiety disorders, depression and other mental dysfunctions cause tremendous damage to people and economics. Many countries have already improved the quality of programs in the field of psychiatric assistance, however, for mass coverage of services to protect mental health in the world, additional efforts are required. 62 ~ research results such psycho -emotional disorders as anxiety disorders and depression are widespread in all countries and among all population groups, regardless of the age and level of income. They are the second most important cause of persistent disability and one of the factors in the loss of healthy years of life. Such disorders increase the expenses of individuals and families for medical care, and also give rise to huge economic losses around the world. ~ > 62 ~ drawn conclusions are published in two reports – 62 > 62 > 62 >“Mental health in the modern world” and “mental health atlas of 2024” – and indicate both positive changes and significant shortcomings in solving mental health problems around the world. Доклады могут служить важнейшим источником информации при разработке национальных стратегий и налаживании международного диалога в преддверии совещания высокого уровня Организации Объединенных Наций по профилактике неинфекционных заболеваний и борьбе с ними и укреплению психического здоровья и благополучия, которое состоится 25 сентября 2025 года в Нью-Йорке.
“Reforming psychiatric care services is one of the most urgent public health tasks,” emphasized the general director of Dr. Tedros Adkhan Goebreesus. – Investments in the protection of mental health are investments in people, society and the economy, which no country can neglect themselves. Each government and every leader must act immediately and make sure that assistance in connection with mental health was considered not by privilege, but one of the basic rights of each person. ”
60 > main theses of the report“ Mental health in modern The world ” 60 ~ p > report that the prevalence of mental disorders differs depending on the gender, however, they are disproportionate in women. Among men and women, anxious and depressive disorders are most common. Suicides remain one of the most tragic outcomes of mental disorders and only in 2021 727,000 people claimed the lives. Suicide is the leading cause of the death of young people in all countries, regardless of the socio-economic situation. Despite the global efforts to reduce mortality from suicides of the current rates of progress, it is not enough to reduce the frequency of suicide by a third by 2030, as provided for goals in the field of sustainable development (CUR) of the United Nations. If the current dynamics is maintained, this indicator will be reduced to the intended period of only 12 percent. & Amp; nbsp; ~ 60 > investment in people, society and economics, which may not be destroyed by which it may not be sure of which it may not be reduced allow not a single country Mental disorders cause gigantic damage to the economy. The costs of medical care are huge, but significantly less indirect costs, primarily related to a decrease in labor productivity. The annual losses of the global economy, due only to depression and anxious disorders, are estimated at the level of one trillion of dollars. given data indicate the urgent need to attract stable financing, a more clear choice of priorities and strengthen interagency interaction to increase the availability of psychiatric care, reduce the stigmatization and counteracting of primordines mental disorders. main theses of the report “Atlas of mental health of 2024” ~ 60 > 62 > 62 ~Compared to 2020, the country has achieved significant success in improving the policy in the field of mental health and relevant planning mechanisms. Many of them modernized politics, introduced human rights approaches to the protection of mental health and increased their readiness to provide psychiatric care and psychosocial support in emergency situations affecting the health of the population. ~ 60 > 60 > this trend was not accompanied by the reform of legal systems. Not many countries have legislatively fixed and put in practice human rights norms in the field of mental health, and only 45 percent believe that their legislation is fully consistent with international standards for the protection of human rights. 62 > 62 >The report states an alarming trend in stagnation of financing psychiatric care. The median significance of state expenses for psychiatric assistance is still only 2 percent in the overall structure of health budgets and has not changed since 2017. At the same time, striking imbalances between countries are observed: if countries with a high income level spend up to $ 65 per person to protect mental health, then countries with low income – only 0.04 dollars. The median of the global indicator of the security of psychiatric personnel is 13 workers per 100,000 population against the backdrop of an extreme lack of specialists in countries with a low and average income level. 60 ~ BlockQUTE >~ 60 > reforming psychiatric care services is one of the most pressing. Public Health tasks Reforming and developing psychiatric services is slow. Less than 10 percent of countries completely moved to the community model of psychiatric care, and most countries have just begun this transition. Stationary assistance is still provided mainly on the basis of psychiatric hospitals, and in almost half the cases it is involuntarily, and more than 20 percent of the hospitalization lasts more than a year. ~ 60 >~ 60 > psychiatric assistance is gradually integrated into the primary health care system: 71 percent of countries corresponds to at least three out of five out of five out of five out of five out of five out of five. Criteria for WHO integration. At the same time, gaps in the data are preserved: only 22 countries presented a sufficient amount of data to evaluate the coverage of help with psychoses. In countries with a low level of income, less than 10 percent of persons in need of it receive assistance, and in countries with a higher income level – more than 50 percent, which indicates the need for urgent measures to increase the availability and quality of service. 62 ~Among positive trends, it should be noted that in most countries effective measures are being carried out to strengthen mental health, in particular, programs in the development of young children, psychological support for schoolchildren and suicide prevention. To date, 80 percent of the countries provides for the provision of psychiatric care and psychosocial support to the victims in emergency situations, although in 2020 the share of such countries was only 39 percent. Although not universally, the availability of outpatient and distance psychiatric care increases. ~ 60 > 62 ~ global call to take mental health measures ~ 60 > according to the country’s positive changes, still seriously lagged behind the country’s positive changes. From the pace of fulfillment of the goals provided for by the comprehensive plan of action in the field of mental health for 2013–2030. ~ 60 > WHO calls for governments and international partners to activate efforts as quickly as possible on the structural transformation of psychiatric assistance systems around the world. These efforts should provide for balanced financing of psychiatric services; reforming the fundamentals of legislation and politics in order to protect human rights; Stable investment in the development of the personnel potential of psychiatric services and a wider introduction of assistance models at the place of residence, 60 ~ 62 & nbsp;