BEIJING, July 30 (Xinhua) -- An official from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) said greater attention should be paid to the mental health issue among the country's senior citizens. Li Zhixin, head of the leading Party members group of the National Center for...
Federal health officials have outlined a five-part plan to improve and protect the mental health and well-being of America's healthcare workers (HCWs) and create sustainable change for the next generation of HCWs. "It's long past time for us to care for the people who care for all of u...
The number of suicide deaths was on a downward trend in 2019 and 2020, but it increased by 5% in 2021, and then further increased by 2.6% in 2022 to 49,449, the CDC found. "Mental health has become the defining public health and societal challenge of our time," said Surgeon Gener...
About one in five children of these ages have a mental health disorder, according to the CDC, and estimates appear to be increasing. What also may be increasing is the amount of health care costs associated with these conditions. "Millions of children in the U.S. have mental disorders that...
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LOS ANGELES, March 31 (Xinhua) -- A new study published Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found more than a third of high school students reported in 2021 they experienced poor mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
mental health as part of CDC's public health mission. Even after the CDC Mental Health Work Group's establishment in 2000, CDC took eight more years to overcome powerful remnants of the old paradigm that had for so long excluded, minimized, or discouraged attention to mental health. The...
More than a quarter of US adolescents experienced poor mental health and about 40% felt persistent sadness and hopelessness, according to the 2023 Youth
As part of a continuing quality improvement assessment of caller informational needs, 302 randomly selected anonymous overnight calls to the Hotline were evaluated for mental health-related content. Of 302 calls, 34 calls (11.3%) were mental health-related, in that callers spoke about specific ...
Treating and screening for non-substance-related mental health disorders could help drive down overdoses, a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found.