Suicides correspond to 1 death in the 100 in the worldannounced World Health Organization (WHO)expressing concern about the inadequate progress made to combat one of the main causes of death among young people.
“A suicide was due to the death of about 727,000 people only in 2021,” he said. Devora CestelHead of the Department of Mental Health in the press conference he gave.
The World Health Organization underlined in a new report that Suicide is one of the main causes of death among young people in all countries and in all socio -economic contexts.
Despite the world -wide efforts, the progress made is too small to achieve the UN sustainable development goal in 2015, which consists of a third of the suicide rates by 2030.
“If today’s trend continues, the decline will only reach 12%” in five years, Kestel noted.
On a global scale, suicide rate decreased by 35% between 2000 and 2021remaining constant during the Covid-19 pandemic rather than an increase in risk factors, according to the report.
Nearly three quarters of suicides, 73%, are recorded in low or middle income countries, where most of the world’s population lives.
High -income countries have a higher suicide rate, but it is difficult to make comparisons as keeping statistics in these countries is more developed than in poor countries, the WHO clarified.
Suicide remains a dramatic consequence of certain mental health disorders, the organization said. Over a billion people suffer from such disorders, with the most common being anxiety and depression, and this number is increasing faster than the world population, according to WHO. This United Nations Organization has expressed particular concern about the mental disorders among young people who suffered particularly during Covid-19 and are very exposed to social media.
“The transformation of mental health services is one of the most pressing public health challenges,” said his head of Tonros Adanom Gembreges in the organization’s announcement.
Mental disorders have severe economic consequences: high health costs, but also indirect expenses, especially in terms of productivity loss, which are even more important, according to the WHO noted that depression and anxiety costs the world economy for 1 trillion.
Source :Skai
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