Mental Health Issues

For the past few years the issue of mental illness has been rising and becoming a bigger problem. The United Nations has suggested guidelines on how to handle mental illness to help Member States but the issue is still very minor in the eyes of the specific. There is a foundation called the World Health Organization (WHO) located in Switzerland and was established in. 1948. WHO is known for keeping the people of the world healthy and ensures the availability of more than about 250 essential medicines including preventive chemotherapy for neglected tropical disease. The past accomplishments of WHO include eradicating smallpox and containing the dangerous disease, Ebola. Although through all of these accomplishments, mental illness has never
Some problems that are currently happening are treatment prices, discrimination, and the homelessness rate has gone up due to mental illness. In the past the UN has posted guidelines on how to treat and handle the mentally ill. The World Health Organization (WHO) has encouraged the member states to increase coordination and partnership with sections outside of health to help and reduce the number of the mentally ill. Realizing that some mentally ill people are people discriminated against and being overlooked, the Australian government has created a Mental Health Week where they can speak their stories and it builds the support for the mentally ill. Early diagnosis is also another suggestion that could really help reduce the number of mentally ill people. Having examined the prices of treatment for mental health is very high, it is very hard to receive and early diagnosis. Then as the mentally ill people get older, their illness gets worse and the price increases. Early diagnosis for young children should be solved as soon as possible so mental health can slowly reduce and it can be cured overtime with the observations of the medical staff. A way of doing this is to cut back on other funds in your country like sports and donate some of that money to a fund for mental health to create for facilities for the mentally ill. The Government of Australia recommends other countries to create an insurance plan for those who need extra help with getting an early diagnosis. Without insurance, many patients would not be able to afford most of their surgeries or medication. Treatment is getting better medicines and technology to help cure those who need it, but now the treatment for mental health is taking a turn to behavioral treatment such as a therapist or just environmental support. According to the research of