Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In a 2024 WHO report, 73% of reported suicides were in low and middle-income countries. Mental illness and suicide are linked, though many suicides are impulsive and occur due to crisis. Groups subject to discrimination , including refugees , indigenous populations , and LGBT people, experience high suicide rates.
Population studies have consistently shown major depression to be about twice as common in women as in men, although it is not yet clear why this is so. [7] The relative increase in occurrence is related to pubertal development rather than chronological age, reaches adult ratios between the ages of 15 and 18, and appears associated with psychosocial more than hormonal factors.
Numerous large-scale surveys of the prevalence of mental disorders in adults in the general population have been carried out since the 1980s based on self-reported symptoms assessed by standardized structured interviews, usually carried out over the phone.
According to statistics released by the Centre of Addiction and Mental Health one in five people in Canada experience a mental health or addiction problem. [28] Young people of ages 15 to 25 are particularly found to be vulnerable. [citation needed] Major depression is found to affect 8% and anxiety disorder 12% of the population.
The comparison between reports and statistics of mental health issues in newer generations (18–25 years old to 26–49 years old) and the older generation (50 years or older) signifies an increase in mental health issues as only 15% of the older generation reported a mental health issue whereas the newer generations reported 33.7% (18-25) and ...
The source for the data below is the OECD Health Statistics 2018, released by the OECD in June 2018 and updated on 8 November 2018. [1]The unit of measurement used by the OECD is defined daily dose (DDD), defined as "the assumed average maintenance dose per day for a drug used on its main indication in adults". [2]
Depression is a mental state of low mood and aversion to activity. [3] It affects about 3.5% of the global population, or about 280 million people worldwide, as of 2020. [4] Depression affects a person's thoughts, behavior, feelings, and sense of well-being. [5]
The National Center for Health Statistics found that suicides drop during the winter months, and peak during spring and early summer. [56] [57] Considering that there is a correlation between the winter season and rates of depression, [58] there are theories that this might be accounted for by capability to die by suicide and relative ...