Mental health services for youth in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Challenges and opportunities (Editorial)

Authors

Atif Rahman, University of Liverpool, Child Mental Health Unit Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Hesham M. Hamoda, Boston Children's Hospital Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States of America
Afarin Rahimi-Movaghar, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Murad M. Khan Dr., Aga Khan UniversityFollow
Khalid Saeed, WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt

Document Type

Editorial

Department

Psychiatry

Abstract

The Global Burden of Disease study shows that the burden from mental and substance use disorders, measured in Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs), has steadily risen in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) over the last three decades and is higher than the global average for almost all EMR countries). Even more alarming is the finding that depression, self-harm, anxiety and conduct disorders constitute four of the top 10 causes of DALYs among girls and boys aged 15-19 years and suicide is a leading cause of adolescent mortality.

Publication (Name of Journal)

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Recommended Citation

Rahman, A., Hamoda, H. M., Rahimi-Movaghar, A., Khan, M. M., Saeed, K. (2019). Mental health services for youth in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Challenges and opportunities (Editorial). Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 25(2), 80-81.
Available at: https://ecommons.aku.edu/pakistan_fhs_mc_psychiatry/114

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