Overview of Mental Health Illness in Youth People

Running head: HEALTHCARE
Mental Health
Illness
2020

HEALTHCARE 1
Overview of Mental Health Illness in Youth People
Mental health is said to be a state of well-being in which people identify their
capabilities, normal life stress, can work effectively and is capable to contribute in the
community. As per the available statistics of the global level, it is identified that mental
sicknesses such as alcohol use disorder, psychoses, and depression are some of the major
reasons that leads to disability. In India, a mental disorder is also considered to be the second-
highest non-communicable disease and around 20 million Indians are diagnosed with a
different type of mental illness. Young people within the age group of 10-24 years in India
are considered to be the precious resource that drives growth and development. However,
30% of young people deal with mental health disorders which require quick attention from
the health professionals (Sunitha & Gururaj, 2014). Due to this before 2030, the economic
loss is anticipated because of the mental health situation is nearly around $1.3 trillion (Gaur
& Ram, 2016). In spite of this huge issue, the health infrastructure and human resources in
the Indian market are very insufficient. As per the data, there are only 0.25 psychiatric beds
for per 10,000 people, whereas there is the availability of only one psychiatrist per 500,000
people. Besides this, there is one psychiatric nurse for per two million people (Gaur & Ram,
2016).
Mental health is impacted by a number of situations like demographic and socio-
economic conditions. The significant factors that have been highlighted in various studies
that are leading to the common mental disorder are socio-economic factors and poverty.
Several evidences reveal that marginalization, lack of education, poverty, and social
disadvantage leads to a higher risk of mental disorders among people through the rising
stressful experience of life. Lack of disease recognition and awareness among people along
with the dominant stigma and discrimination are some of the other significant barriers in
accessing health care and leading segregation. In the Indian market, there are around 10% of