The Importance Of Mental Health?

Mental Health is the well-being of an individual due to their emotional, psychological, and social status. An individual’s mental health can be affected by many factors, such as, brain chemistry, personal experiences, and family history (HHS). One in every five adults are affected by a mental health illness or disorder (NCBI). Mental health is important because it affects how an individual interacts in school, work, and society and how they address their physical health (APA). Mental health issues not only affect the individual, but the people around them as well.
Suicide is the second leading cause of death caused by mental health problems in ages 15 to 29 year olds (WHO). Depression is one of the top factors that can increase the risk of

Giving youth early treatment to help them treat their mental condition will prevent greater issues in the future and teaching the youth about how to prevent mental conditions can help them decrease their chances of developing a mental condition as adults. The issue here is that mental health resources and services for schools costs money and not all schools want to spend money. Schools will most likely get funding to create these mental health services available for students, but it may be difficult to find funders that would donate money. But, finding funders who would like to donate would be the most recommended thing to do to create

World Health Organization (WHO) has a program called Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) where they have tried to increase services by providing trained health providers to assist those in need. The goal is to create more policies and programs that can be implemented or enforced in primary, middle, and high schools to educate students and their families the importance of mental health and ways to learn healthy mental health habits to prevent future mental problems as adult that can later on lead to suicide. If these new policies and programs are successful the ideas can be taken to other parts of the world to help people who need mental help. As public health professionals the goal is to make sure that everyone has access to health care and try to prevent illnesses, so that everyone can be as healthy as they can