Hi
class!
Today
I’m posting a summary from an article that I found in Santiago Times. I found
this article very interesting for us as psychologists because we have to know
what’s going on with mental health in our country.
Chile
is one of the least happy OECD nations, according to an index related with
quality of life made by OECD, this is a very critical index. A research lead by
Universidad de Concepción shows that “around one
in tree Chileans will suffer from one form or another of psychiatric problem at
some point in their lifetime.”
One of
the effects of this problem is that depression reduces years in life because of
the illness, this is measured by a metric “disability
adjusted life years (DALYS)” this
metric considers medical cost. Depression also costs a lot of money to the
state. The good news
is that now Chile is taking mental health like one of their priorities, and
public policies are in that direction, for example the inclusion of depression
on AUGE.
If
this matter is so important, what can be done? The research by Universidad de
Concepción shows that a big part of de psychiatric disorders are developed in
adolescence and childhood, for that reason is very important to prevent
depression on kids.
Are Chileans
more depressed than others?
Interesting article! :)
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