“Suicide took the lives of about 727,000 people only in 2021. years,” she said at the Devor Kestel news conference, the leader of the SZO Mental Health Department. In the latest WHO report, it is emphasized that suicide is one of the main causes of death in young people in all countries and in all socio-economic contexts.
Despite global efforts, very weak progress has been made in achieving the goal of the United Nations Sustainable Development, adopted in 2015. years, on reducing suicide rates by 2030. years.
“If the current trend continues, the reduction in suicide rates will only be 12 percent,” Kestel said.
Globally, suicide rate decreased by 35 percent between 2000. and 2021, remaining stable during the coronavirus pandemic despite the increase in the risk factors, the report is stated. This decline was recorded in each region except in northern and south America, where the suicide rate increased by 17 percent in the same period.
Almost three-quarters (73 percent) suicides occur in low-income countries, where most world’s population lives.
“Suicide is a dramatic consequence of certain problems with mental health,” said the WHO and emphasizes that more than a billion people suffer from such disturbances, most often from anxiety and depression, and that number grows faster than the world’s population.
The WHO is especially worried about the problem of mental health among young people, who have been particularly suffering during the coronavirus epidemic and are very exposed to social networks. “Adjusting the mental health clinic is one of the most urgent challenges of public health,” said the Chief Director of the WHO Tedros Adhan Gheberyesus.
Suicide is the fourth leading cause of young people between the ages of 15 and 29, after traffic accidents, tuberculosis and violence, the SZO data show. Mental disorders also have serious economic consequences: high costs of health care, but even higher indirect costs, especially in terms of productivity loss, and the WHO stands out that only depression and anxiety the global economy cost a billion dollars a year.
(Vijesti.ba / Hina)
