Global Health and Sustainability: Mental Health Concerns Among Adults in the UK

This briefing paper explores the rising concern of mental health among adults in the UK and its impact on global health and sustainability. It discusses the background, current status, and key considerations of mental health issues, including depression, anxiety disorders, and addiction to alcohol and smoking.

Global Health and
Sustainability

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
Issue :...............................................................................................................................................3
Background:....................................................................................................................................4
Current status:..................................................................................................................................5
Key considerations:..........................................................................................................................6
REFRENCES ................................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Global health and sustainability plays crucial role for strengthened working rise based on
raising health issues among people globally, and complications in health priorities. Globally
health and sustainability factors holds huge importance for people, as with changing climate
conditions there is also fundamental rise found in major health concerns. Mental health for
adults, has been increasing in UK, where 1 in 4 people will experience mental health problem
each year in UK. The briefing paper will discuss issue of mental health for adults which is one of
the most rising global health issue. Background, current status and key considerations evolving
global health concerns, sustainability issues will be explored within research. The analysis done
in report will fundamentally also explore mental health condition among adults, which will
significantly determine key considerations essentially affecting global health and sustainability.
Issue :
UK experiences mental health issue in one in four adults every year, where it has led
depression and anxiety disorders variedly. Mental health problems represent the largest single
cause of disability in UK, where it is rising as one of the major concern affecting sustainability
and longevity among people (Prescott, Rathbone and Brown, 2020). Mental UK aims to
increase awareness, about mental health issues within people which signifies timely availability
of treatments, and medical therapies for adults. Lack of access to high quality mental health
services, stigma related with fragmented service delivery models and lack of research capacities
for implementation in policy change parameters have led to current mental health treatment gap.
To create global health sustainability holds huge significance for adults people in UK, and also
medical well-being has to be enhanced among young adults. There has been rapid increase found
in UK percentage of mental health patients, people attempting suicides due to anxiety disorder
and stress within their lifestyle.

Background:
Mental health problems are major cause found in adults at UK which is increasing
concern worldwide with depression, anxiety and drug uses which are primary drivers of
disabilities among people. Mental health wellness plays keen essential role in developing
sustainability, proper strengthened new treatments' availability for people who suffer from
depression and mental illness. Depression has been found to be major contributor to suicide and
mental health issues among young people in UK, lately leading to increase in mental health
problems. Anxiety disorder, panic increase attacks and obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-
traumatic stress disorder are some of the most increase mental health problems among adults in
UK. It can be analysed that it has increased concern related to mental health issues, specifically
connected to people lifestyle habits which has led to increase in mental health. Mental illness
refers to wide range of mental health conditions such as disorders which affect mood,
behavioural parameters and leads to increase depression among adults. Schizophrenia, addictive
behaviour to alcohol and smoking are some other factors which have led to mental health
concerns among young adults. There are various mental health illness patients, in UK where
adult age group has been constantly seeing functional increase which signifies that there has to
be specific new medical services be available for people (Prescott, Rathbone and Brown, 2020).
Mental health care worldwide lacks access to high quality mental health services where
stigma, service delivery models and lack of research capacity within policy change has
contributed to current mental health treatment gap. The mental health problems are common
among people, including isolation, affective anxiety disorders and psychosis among adults where
UK has witnessed significant increase ( Neill and et.al, 2020). The physical disorders found in
people, have also led to an increase in anxiety disorders, dementia and behavioural disorders
where physical, surgical interventions have developed an increase in mental illness parameters.
Adults feeling stress at workplace, and having lethargic busy lifestyle has led to an immense
increase in mental health issues. This has been also found to be seeing an increase, due to
primitive decline in treatments and therapies easy availability for adults among mental health
awareness. Also, recent research has shed light on fact that mental health holds huge importance
for people wellness, based on significant priorities for increased sustainability in global health
condition. Further research will shed light on optimum new specifics based on extended new
medical health sustainability, and UK strategies to adopt. Research in this area also primitively

sheds light on fact that mental health largely has become one of the major concern in UK, where
recent covid-19 pandemic has been also excessively rising to become one major factor. The
country has been also extensively witnessing an upsurge in depression cases, where psychology
well-being has found to be reduced actively among extensive levels. UK also further aims to
specifically adhere to untapped new determined wellness which signifies that healthcare
awareness holds huge importance for optimist technical strengthened recovery goals. The new
range of vision optimisation, and ideal new scale functional advancement to be worked on for
reducing mental health issues holds huge scope (Talas, and et.al, 2021).
Current status:
Mental illness itself occurs interaction rise within multiple factors such as stress, abuse
and traumatic events which influences illness increase among people. There has been high
increase among mental illness factors, where depression and addiction to alcohol and smoking
habits have led to mental illness. This has been also found to be major social health issue in UK,
which has raised concern about sustainability and significant increase awareness mental health
importance. People with severe mental illness are more likely to be victims, where ill health are
more dangerous to themselves than others which shows 80-90% of people due to suicide and are
experiencing mental distress. 1 in 6 working adults have symptoms associated with mental ill
health where this is second largest source of burden in diseases within UK. Mental illness are
common, long-lasting and impacting lifestyle than any other health conditions which signifies
that as per sustainability parameter healthcare need to be further improvised ( Molodynski and
et.al, 2020).
Half of mental health issue starts in adults from age 15 and grows by age 18, where
12.8% of young people aged between 5-19 meet clinical criteria for mental health disorders.
Percentage of young people aged between 5-15 with depression or anxiety increased multi fold,
which signifies high priorities for further proper treatments to be provided. The recent data also
signifies that mixed anxiety and depression is most common mental disorder in Britain with mere
7.8% people are meeting criteria for diagnosis. They are more likely to experience depression in
their lifetime, which also increases concern about bringing change in medical therapies' ans
increasing awareness with sustainability parameters. The covid-19 pandemic rapidly has induced
considerable degree of fear, worry and concern about people underlying health conditions which
is also recent factor leading an increase in mental health concern. This can be also analysed that

socially adults have been lately feeling stressed at workplace, and anxiety disorders which have
further declined proper treatments' availability. Current status in UK signifies that health care
standards, related to mental health issue explains that there has been constant rise among medical
needs and expertise oriented recovery ( Pierri, 2018).
Key considerations:
The key considerations while analysing global health and sustainability, can be evaluated
that UK has been witnessing an increase in mental health issues among adults. It has decreased
healthcare potency among adults, based on significant aspects connected to further decline in
treatments effective reach among people. There has been increase in mental health issues, such
as depression and anxiety disorders among young adults which has raised concerns about proper
timely delivery of treatments. Approximately 1 in 4 people in UK experiences mental health
problems such as high anxiety and depressive lifestyle, where there has been a constant rise
among people awareness aspects based on extended wellness ( Santos, Barros and Huxley,
2018). There has been also an immense increase in mental health issues, where this has led to
significant specific decline in optimum proper sustainability in healthcare priorities among
people. Pattern of mental ill health across lifespan leads to physical illness where peak factors of
mental illness has been found to be also specific, where clinically younger patients are at loss of
medical services. This has been also found to be one of the major concern, based on which
specific capacities where sustainability of mental healthcare has to be worked on. For further
increasing people awareness about mental health UK need to further adopt towards dynamic new
health care treatments, medication and therapies for people suffering from depression.
The proportion of adults aged 18 and over reporting clinical significant level of
psychological distress which increased from 20.8% in 2019 to 29.5% in April 2020. There has
been significant increase in mental illness also, based on stressful lifestyle habits found among
adults which has led to be one of the major aspect. The Covid-19 pandemic has also increased
depressive living, where factors of isolation in living and adopting to new specific parameters
have been found to hold major importance. It can be also analysed that the rapid increase in
stressful working conditions among adults, based on extended determined parameters related
with varied specifics are integrally crucial.
Mixed anxiety and depression is found in 8 out of 100 people, generalized anxiety
disorder Is found in 6 out of 100 people. Post traumatic stress disorder, is found in 4 out of 100

people along with depression in major 3 people out of 100 people. There are also cases of
phobias, found in 2 people out of 100, which further also increased mental health concerns for
people. The obsessive-compulsive disorder is also one of the another mental health problem
found in people where I is found in 1 out of 100 percentage. The panic disorder due to stress and
anxiety issues are also increasingly becoming one of the major aspect which needs to be
analysed up for keen significant priorities among mental healthcare. Depression rate has doubled
since covid-19 pandemic has grown where concerns related to inequalities among young people,
women and clinically vulnerable adults have been found. The new access to mental health care
has been witnessing decline in recent time, where long term implications have put greater
pressure on mental health services actively.
Research also highlight specific need to evolve on further extended strengthened vision
based on mental health issues found among adults, where UK has large percentage increase in
mental illness parameters (Ingrassia, 2018.). Alcohol, drugs and mental health heads on
fundamental focus on fact that 30-50% of people with serve mental illness are problem due to
substantial addiction. It can be also analysed that substantial number of people in contact with
misuse services have strong mental illness, where drug and alcohol increases risk of suicide
attempts and completions. There has been also potential determinant found up in the varied
extended technical aspect, where diseases of mental illness and ill healthcare parameters have
declined aptitude for mental well-being. Recent statistics, also showcases rise in mental health
concerns among people in UK due to cyberbullying cases within online networks and within
extended decline in therapies availability (Lambert and Carr, 2018).
The continuous addiction to social media, and specific aspects connected to mental
healthcare parameters are highly essential for strengthening sustainability factors actively based
on optimum standards. Explicit fundamental growth in recent research findings showcases focus
on fact that mental health systems among people have been significantly rising, delivering need
for care in systematic parameter. Lack of explicit guidelines across system signifies that mental
health issues and significant community discussions based on extended settings, specifies that
this has been increasingly becoming one of the major concern ( Kotera, Conway and Van
Gordon, 2019).
The covid-19 pandemic has developed rise in stringent healthcare concerns, where adults
have been experiencing an increase in stress levels, panic attacks, social awareness and also

specific efficacy connected to develop proper new treatments. Struggles with self-esteem, phases
of sadness and isolation are some major concerns impacting rise in mental healthcare parameters
which holds huge significance. The survey within recent research also showcases focus on facts
that 4 out of 10 adults have negative effect on mental health concerns. Data also shows that 26%
of respondents have experienced high competent rise in mental health issues, where stress and
anxiety are common and rapidly increasing top concerns.
Adults have undergone depressive phase and suffered panic attack, due to which mental
illness and anxiety disorders have identified as major concerns (Daffey-Moore, 2020). Also,
recent research has been specifically signifying that mental healthcare campaigns and programs
to create awareness, based on optimum new specific efficacy for extended optimum recovery
from depressive phases. This can be also analysed that mental health priorities, further develops
stringent pace to be technically worked on strategically for extended time period based on larger
time period goals. UK with increased cases of stress, anxiety disorders and depression cases
found among adults need to further bring on new lifestyle measures enhance on practical
improvement. This can be also analysed to be dynamically crucial for strengthening new
medical services extensively, taking up counselling sessions and enhance rapid expertise for
timely recovery from mental illness. There has been also rapid increase in UK mental health
patients and specific efficacy found on extended new scale competencies based on optimum
functional goals worked on. This further also specifies that mental healthcare signifies best
determined parameters, where taking up counselling sessions, therapies and medication enhances
abilities to be operatively worked on.
UK needs to further advance up new specifics related to medication, therapies and
counselling services for adults which will enhance up extensive proper timely recovery from
mental illness. This has been also researched as highly essential to develop competencies for
mental healthcare aspects, which signifies the best determinants to be engaged on towards
extended expertise (Daffey-Moore, 2020).
Options
Observations about key considerations and in depth analysis of effective analysis of
various options will enable significant focus to be evolved on, for improvising better mental
healthcare goals. This can be also analysed that strengthening options for providing better
healthcare services to mental health affected people, will determine further extended optimum

wellness standards. Mental health problems in people need to be given therapies, medication for
proper recovery and also evolved recovery by planning down of specific care. Support, medical
professional motivation through therapies have been found to be advanced on where this further
will enable people to get stable recovery (Codagnone and et.al, 2020). The recent research about
study analysis also signifies that therapies sessions hold huge scope for optimized wellness
among adults. Cons of therapies option for reducing depression, mental illness among adults can
be understood that there may not be further longevity of treatments which may decrease specific
efficacy of mental ill people. Another option is recovery through medication, where doctors
specifically prescribe medication to mental ill affected people. This can be also analysed to have
pros, where it has benefits of optimum and timely recovery of adults facing depression and
stress, which will significantly improvise further healthcare priorities. By taking up medication
expertise, medication has cons for people as there is less efficiency attached within treatment
which may hamper efficiency aspect dynamically.
The mental healthcare aspects shall be further improvised, among people by proper
medication and therapies which signifies that the best scale efficacy further extends optimum
recovery from depression. This has been also found to be ideally essential, where mental
healthcare recovery also determines optimum aspects to be worked on actively based on
extended wellness. UK mental healthcare by further extending online platform services
availability for larger sections of people, will be able to pertain proper technical recovery .(Burn
and Mudholkar, 2020). The new extended scope for extended wellness criteria signifies optimum
recovery to be worked on, where technically this plays keen role for improving depression phase.
Anxiety issues, depressive phases analysis can be also further improved on by taking up
new lifestyle measures and adopting healthcare specifics significantly. UK has been witnessing
huge rise in awareness within healthcare priorities within mental health perspectives, where this
further has led to enhanced significant practical development of new services variedly. By
analysing new medical services expansion rapidly, determines new keen productivity to be
worked on for gaining fundamental strengthened extensive recovery for patients suffering
depression. This also determines keen specific efficacy to be evolved on for technical working
recovery, in patients suffering from severe depression and health issues. UK specific expertise
by taking up best steps, and technical strategies will be able to synchronize advanced oneness
goals, worked on for timely recovery from mental health issues (Brenman, 2021).

Recommendations:
From the above analysis, it can be suggested that there is different method that could be used
by adult population to improve its mental health. Such as
Taking care of body through intaking proper nutritional meals, drinking plenty of water,
avoid vaping and devoting some of time frame in doing exercise to decrease the level of
depression, anxiety and improve the mood. Get enough sleep that is for around at least 8
hours in day, as research has helped in understanding the lack of sleep is main cause of
mental health (Kumar and Nayar, 2021).
Secondly, adult people need to find out alternative method or intervention that could be
used to deal with difficult situation or stay positive in each and every situation. As stress
is part of life, so individual need to devote time to learn method that could be used to
handle the stress for better health and well-being.
 Furthermore, it can be suggested that both government, families and healthcare
organisation need to collaborative take step to reduce the stress level of individual.
Through organizing meditation program where the people are aware of the negative
impact of mental stress on their well-being. Healthcare professional needs to find out
more alternative method that could be used to treat patient that are suffering from mental
health issue in the adult age only (Ornell and et.al., 2020).
Fourthly, individuals need to prioritise the activities, or task that need to be performed so that the
stress level to complete all the task is reduce to maximum extend. In addition to this, they should
not be part of companies that are pressuring to work day and night or giving them more pressure.
So, they themselves needs to focus on living in friendly environment where they can learn from
each other.
UK with changing new advanced medical expertise and functional advancement coming
up aims to strengthen up new range of counselling facilities, where therapies of meditation will
enhance new expertise to be worked on. This further signifies that medication extensively brings
on primitive wellness scenarios, based on extended determined wellness criteria which critically
plays strong role. Adults by taking instant help and professional medical assistance will be able
to significantly work on extensive recovery from depression and stress for longer time period

parameters. Recent findings done in study have also worked on for bringing proactive medical
surge worked on, where UK adults by further taking up one-to-one therapy, interactive session
and medication will be able to further be optimistic towards adopting new lifestyle. The medical
experts, and life coach should be available for patients who suffer depression, mental illness and
anxiety disorders as it also determines proper timely recovery services to be expanded on.
Recent findings from study also signifies that there has been significant new range of efficacy
worked on, where proper medication extensively evolves on keen fundamental growth to be
implemented. Adults by taking up specific sessions, music therapies and medication significantly
will enable determined capabilities to grow fundamentally based on technical targets.
This can be also analysed that by further extensively taking up sessions related with
therapies, medication will evolve on improvement in gaining recovery for mental illness
specifically. There has been also determined growth among aspects connected to developed
abilities, based on specific keen fundamental working synergies where UK aims to further
enhance extended wellness criteria. The rapid extensive wellness, based on medication, therapies
sessions and optimized recovery from depression signifies new advanced recovery parameters
based on extended developed parameters. Medical experts, and doctors by extending up new
services for reducing depressive aspects worked on will be able to bring on rapid advancement in
handling cases with hue complexity. There has been also primitive engagement worked on,
based on extended new structural awareness parameters where medication and extensive
therapies plays crucial role to develop proper recovery for all adults. Also, specific efficacy and
consistency wellness criteria holds huge specifics for extended recovery of patients wellness
which signifies extended timely recovery goals to be worked on rapidly.
There has been also significant increase found among people who face mental health
issues, and specific timely optimization of extensive goals for gaining fundamental optimize
working enhanced paradigm worked on. UK mental healthcare aspects hold huge significant
aspect connected to optimum new determined standards , where the recent aspects connected to
larger range of working specifics holds huge pace. There has been also primitive rise for
determined wellness goals, based on extended wellness parameter where mental healthcare
standards should be improvised on for extended determined optimize goals. There has been also
new research findings worked on, where medical expertise related to therapies and specific
wellness criteria signifies specific extensive growth to be improvised on for new technical

expansion rapidly. This also specifies that mental health recovery also signifies that technical
working awareness related to depression reduction, activities relate to reduce isolation and
optimize recovery from anxiety plays keen role for developing proper rapport.
Conclusion
From the above report it can be conclude that mental health is one of the main key issues
faced by adult population living across United Kingdom. Likewise, the study has helped in
finding out that around 1 out of 4 people are suffering from the mental health issue each year in
England. There are different reasons for increasing mental health issue in the society such as
more stressful working environment, difficult situation, less intake of sleep and nutrition and
being suffered from situation of abuse and neglect. Such as there are many workplaces in which
employees are being forced to work day and night or even on Sunday that results in causing
mental pressure. Furthermore, the report has helped in understanding that mental health results
in causing various health issue among individuals such as anxiety disorder, panic increase attacks
and obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder. Both government and other
organisation needs to take steps to reduce the mental health issue face by adult generation. The
study has also helped in summarising that half of the mental health issue are being suffered from
age of 15. Therefore, at last adults have undergone depressive phase and suffered panic attack
because of mental health issue so necessary intervention needs to be planned to overcome the
same.
Research has shed light in depth on conclusion regarding recent rise in depression
percentage among young adults, which has been also found to be competently extended as one of
the best aspect which holds huge importance. The analysis done in research, has been also
evolving to bring on fundamental evocative rise among health standards decline which leads to
significant rise in mental health issues parameters actively (Lopes and Jaspal, 2020). Also, recent
findings have also signified that extended wellness criteria parameters enhances keen functional
wellness parameters based on extended paradigm for determined stable recovery. The analysis
has been found to be authentic, worked on strategically based on extended findings and
competently effective for in depth expected wellness.
Also research done in optimum parameters based on recent findings have worked on
extended new strengthened wellness aspects, based on optimally new fundamental working goals

for critical advancement. UK witnessing an increase in mental health patients, has been also
found to be determined to bring on new extended wellness based on improvised health scenarios.
There has been extended analysis towards technical determined parameters, where research also
summarized by taking instant steps by taking up counselling sessions, and medication therapies
will enhance new optimum delivery of recovery within depressive mental health issue. Analysis
has been found to be authentic, fundamentally competent for significant extended wellness
associated where mental health awareness has ben found to be authentic. There has been also
primitive increase found in productivity parameters based on extended determined wellness,
where cases of people facing depression issues, anxiety disorder has been found to be also on
increase competently ( Linney and et.al, 2020).

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