Mental Health Issues In Malaysia 2020
By 2020 mental illness is expected to be the second biggest health problem affecting malaysians after heart disease.
Mental health issues in malaysia 2020. Expressing gratitude can boost one s well being. A mental health advocate estimates mental health issues among employees may have cost the country rm14 46 billion or 1 of malaysia s gross domestic product gdp in 2018 and. Depression will be a major mental health illness by 2020 as more people are expected to experience increased stress due to work and family pressure the malaysian psychiatric. Picture by firdaus latif.
November 30 2017 by. 2018 with the estimated costs exceeding 80 million usd manaf et al. By 2020 mental illness is expected to be the second biggest health problem affecting malaysians after heart disease. According to the latest national health and morbidity survey every three in 10 adults aged 16 years and above in malaysia suffer from some form of mental health issues.
Today approximately 30 of people in malaysia aged 16 years or older have mental health problems hassan et al. February 18 2020. Sep 5 2020 10 30 am. Youth with mental health problems stay strong under covid 19.
It calls on society to invest in providing mental read more 0. According to the latest national health and morbidity survey. In fact the international journal of academic research in business and social sciences reported in an article highlighting the issues and challenges of mental health in malaysia wrote that that more than 50 of malaysians believe that when it comes to mental illness the sufferer is to blame for their condition while about 80 believe that there s no such thing as mental health problems. Although malaysia has been making efforts towards mental illness awareness over the years lee said that the subject is still considered taboo in these parts and that our children and youths need to be included in the conversation.
The 2020 world mental health campaign encourages us to invest. A man feeds his pet bird on his front porch during the movement control order in gombak april 23 2020. Mental health news find latest news. Kuala lumpur april 30 malaysian think tank the centre today revealed that a study on mental health well being showed that almost half of its respondents reported experiencing negative mental well being during the movement control order mco with different.
Mental health issues have read more 0. 2017 has been encouraging for mental health advocacy in malaysia.