Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Imagine a health problem that affects one in six of us, that has a deep and damaging impact on our family and working lives, where effective treatments are available, and yet where only about a quarter of people with this condition get any treatment. Is this a scandal of neglect affecting people with cancer or heart disease diabetes? No – this is the real situation for people with mental health problems in Britain today. These conditions span the range from autism to alcohol use disorders, and from depression to dementia. More than 50 years ago when mothers suffered from post-natal depression in England, they were given electroconvulsive therapy to aid their recovery. Yet there is little evidence that we treat provide better mental health treatment now than we did then.
In global terms, the United Nations plays a leading role in identifying which health conditions are the highest priority. In 2000, 189 countries made a commitment to help achieve the eight millennium development goals (MDGs) by 2015. Three of these goals were to do with health: to reduce child mortality; to improve maternal health; and to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases. None referred to mental illness.
http://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2014/sep/02/mental-health-low-priority-united-nations
In global terms, the United Nations plays a leading role in identifying which health conditions are the highest priority. In 2000, 189 countries made a commitment to help achieve the eight millennium development goals (MDGs) by 2015. Three of these goals were to do with health: to reduce child mortality; to improve maternal health; and to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases. None referred to mental illness.
http://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2014/sep/02/mental-health-low-priority-united-nations