In the future, the Ministry of Health is looking to expand the system to see how it can be used for other essential medicines and tracking disease outbreaks.
World Mental Health Day: an opportunity to kick-start a massive scale-up in investment in mental health Joint release by the World Health Organization, United for Global Mental Health and the World Federation for Mental Health
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2020年8月27日 | 新闻稿 | 日内瓦
27 August 2020 | News release | Geneva
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精神卫生是公共卫生中最被忽视的领域之一。
Mental health is one of the most neglected areas of public health.
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全世界近10亿人存在精神障碍，每年300万人死于有害使用酒精，每40秒钟就有一人自杀身亡。
Close to 1 billion people are living with a mental disorder, 3 million people die every year from the harmful use of alcohol and one person dies every 40 seconds by suicide.
And now, billions of people around the world have been affected by the COVID-19pandemic, which is having a further impact on people’s mental health.
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然而，全世界有机会获得高质量精神服务的人相对较少。
Yet, relatively few people around the world have access to quality mental health services.
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在低收入和中等收入国家，75%以上患有精神、神经和物质使用障碍的人根本得不到治疗。
In low- and middle-income countries, more than 75% of people with mental, neurological and substance use disorders receive no treatment for their condition at all.
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此外，污名、歧视、惩罚性立法和侵犯人权现象仍然普遍存在。
Furthermore, stigma, discrimination, punitive legislation and human rights abuses are still widespread.
The limited access to quality, affordablemental health care in the world before the pandemic, and particularly in humanitarian emergencies and conflict settings, has been further diminished due to COVID-19 as the pandemic has disrupted health services around the world.