{"id":987653949,"date":"2021-02-11T03:21:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T02:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/mental-health-financing-prevention-or-paying-dearly-for-lack-of-investment\/"},"modified":"2023-10-04T14:15:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T13:15:06","slug":"mental-health-financing-prevention-or-paying-dearly-for-lack-of-investment","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/mental-health-financing-prevention-or-paying-dearly-for-lack-of-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental health: Financing prevention or paying dearly for lack of investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span>Underfunding mental health could be very costly. The UN Secretary General sounds the alarm on World Mental Health Day. Several months later, the situation remains the same: mental health still receives less than 1% of international health aid.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>This lack of investment in health services is costly. Estimates prior to COVID 19 reveal that nearly $100 billion in economic productivity is lost each year due to depression and anxiety alone. While every dollar spent on care for depression and anxiety yields a return of $5.  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>The diagram in <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/tombee-entre-les-mailles-du-filet-la-sante-mentale-des-jeunes-au-canada-154445\">this article<\/a> is clear:&nbsp;:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span><span>Financing prevention and early intervention<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span>Improving accessibility to services  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span>Involving young people  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span>And take action&nbsp;: individuals, employers, governments  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Underfunding mental health could be very costly. The UN Secretary General sounds the alarm on World Mental Health Day. Several months later, the situation remains the same: mental health still receives less than 1% of international health aid. This lack of investment in health services is costly. Estimates prior to COVID 19 reveal that nearly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1633,"featured_media":987531429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987653949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987653949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987653949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987653960,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987653949\/revisions\/987653960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987531429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987653949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987653949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987653949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}