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YOUNG PEOPLE’S MENTAL HEALTH

In this world we living in, there have been atleast 13% of people in between the ages of 10-
19 diagnosed with mental health issue. However, this issue does not get the attentions it needed.
Furthermore, more than 40% of young people's mental health illnesses are anxiety and depression,
UNICEF also reports that, worldwide, suicide is the fourth most-common cause of death among
adolescents. In eastern Europe and central Asia, suicide is the leading cause of death for young
people in that age group — and it’s the second-highest cause in western Europe and North America.
Although most mental-health disorders arise during adolescence, UNICEF says that only one-third of
investment in mental-health research is targeted towards young people. Moreover, the research
itself suffers from fragmentation — scientists involved tend to work inside some key disciplines, such
as psychiatry, paediatrics, psychology and epidemiology, and the links between research and health-
care services are often poor. This means that effective forms of prevention and treatment are
limited, and lack a solid understanding of what works, in which context and why. In conclusion,
young people’s mental health need to exposed more so that communities know on how to treat and
handle it.

Reference :

Young people’s mental health is finally getting the attention it needs, Cohen Kadosh, 7 October 2021,
Nature.com