Mental health: Global effort sought
proper noun
Experts around the globe are calling
for a joint effort to tackle the world's leading cause
plural noun
of suffering and
disability - mental health disorders.
singular noun
Nearly 450 million people have mental
adjective
health disorders and more than
three-quarters
live in developing countries.
adjective
According to the World Health Organization
dependent clause
(WHO), eight in every 10 of those
living
in developing nations receive no treatment at all.
transitive verb
Many are the survivors of infectious diseases, natural disasters and war.
In Afghanistan, most families have lost one or more member during the
country's 30
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years of conflict.
And it's estimated about half of Afghans over 15 years of age have mental
health
verb phrase
problems such as depression, anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder.
Outside of the country's capital Kabul, there is no mental healthcare system.
place adverb
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Afghanistan is not alone - almost half of the world's population lives in a
country where ,
subject
on average,there is one psychiatrist or fewer to serve 200,000
people.
Many low-income countries have less than one mental
health specialist per one million
population,according to the WHO.
In Nigeria, a quarter of patients seen in local health centres have
significant
subject
depression symptomsyet few are diagnosed and only one in six of
those who are
diagnosed get treatment of any kind.
diagnosed get treatment of any kind.
In other parts of Africa, like the Ghanaian capital Accra, patients in some mental health
institutions are left hungry and naked.
Each country faces its own set of challenges.
personal pronoun
In Ethiopia, a major cause of mental stress is domestic violence, which is
thought to
adjective dependent
occur in more than two-thirds of rural families.
clause
Meanwhile people living in Haiti are having to come to terms with the
devastation
subject intransitive verb
of the 2010 earthquake that killed more than 300,000 people, injured
another 300,000
action verb
and left 1.6 million homeless. Almost every person on the island
was affected. Later that
same year a cholera outbreak killed another 6,000 inhabitants.
In May 2012, health ministers from the member states of the World Health
Assembly
time adverb
agreed to a resolution on mental health, making a commitment to promote
greater
awareness of mental health issues and improve care standards around the world.
direct object
Mobile help
A global mental health action plan is now being drawn up.
The Canadian government has said it will give nearly $20m (£12.5m) to support
15
new projects designed to improve mental health diagnosis and care in
developing
direct object
countries. The projects, led by Grand Challeges Canada, will tackle issues that can
lead to mental illness, such as alcohol and substance abuse,
as well as delivering solutions like counselling and health promotion.
adverbial (prepositional) phrase
One project will use mobile phones to deliver instant and accessible support
to Nigerian
women suffering from postnatal depression.
Another will use local health networks and telemedicine to help Afghans with
mental
indefinite pronoun infinitive phrase
indefinite pronoun infinitive phrase
health conditions.
Dr Peter Singer, of Grand Challenges Canada, said: "There is very little
funding for
mental health innovations in low- and middle-income countries, where
mental illness
relative pronoun
is the most neglected of many neglected diseases.
"It's a terrible denial of human potential."
independent clause
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