The infliction of war and military aggression upon children must be considered a violation of their basic human rights and can have a persistent impact on their physical and mental health and well-being, with long-term consequences for their development. Given the recent events in Ukraine with mi...
24 Differences of prevalence rates may also have been influenced by the overall level of health and social care provision in each country or specific aspects of the national health and social care systems. The considered prewar characteristics, war experiences, and postwar factors did not explain ...
13,44 Severity and Treatment The proportion of respondents who received health care treatment for emotional or substance-use problems during the 12 months before the WMH interview varies widely across surveys (Table 5), from a low of 0.8% in Nigeria to a high of 15.3% in the United States....
The prevalence of mental health conditions among women with HIV in Canada ranges between 29.5% and 57.4%, highlighting the need for accessible mental health care. We aimed to (1) describe the availability and use of mental health services among women wit
Another evident change during the pandemic period is an increase in mental-health-related calls, especially by children but also, with somewhat lesser intensity, by adolescents. In the initial weeks of the pandemic, calls by children related to “moderate” mental-health problems (e.g. stress, ...
This part of the research establishes baseline rates of mental health care utilization in military mental health clinics in 2000 and serves as a comparison for future studies of the mental health care burden of the current war.;The second part of this study provides a unique application of a ...
1 Indeed, health care visits and days out of role owing to mental disorders in the US military are exceeded only by those owing to injuries.2 This is partly because selection and retention criteria lead to low rates of chronic physical disorders, but military service also has unique stressors...
College dropout rates have increased significantly amid signs that more students are struggling with issues such as mental health, long-distance commuting and financial pressures. Data released by the Higher Education Authority (HEA) shows the number of students who di...
While the burden is often on schools and health care providers, there is clearly a role for benefits leaders in pushing for more youth mental health support within benefits programs.
A large body of literature has demonstrated that there are developmental differences in mental health problems. However, less is known about the development of mental health problems in ethnic minority children, particularly at the population level. Using a detailed ethnic classification and nationally ...