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A Global Problem: Mentally Ill Under Treated
September 08, 2007 at 7:39 PM
Mental Health News
Most people in the world with mental illness get no treatment at all, and scarce mental health resources are not reaching the people who need them most, 'The treatment data we have are pretty troubling,' said Wang and colleagues studied mental health treatment data on 84,850 adults in 17 developed and developing countries taken from the World Health Organization's mental health surveys.
The lack of mental health treatment was most severe in less-developed countries, where only a few people with serious disorders received any treatment in the past year.
But even in developed nations, roughly half of those with severe disorders got no care at all.
'Even in the United States, which is by far the most resourced country, it is by no means adequate. In our country, folks who meet the criteria for the most serious illness, only about half get anything,' Wang said in a telephone interview.
'Many aren't receiving healthcare at all. The situation is concerning,' he said. Patients who were male, married, less-educated and at the extremes of age or income got the least amount of care, the researchers found.
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