Global Equity in Mental Health

Disability due to mental ill health is being increasingly recognized as a burgeoning problem plaguing the world.They are known to account for one in every six years lived with disability worldwide.One in eight people in the world is living with a mental illness, and this number differs across age and gender.Current mental health systems are poorly governed, resource-limited, and disproportionately distributed, with variable quality of care.The result is a worsening economic burden of mental health.With growing social and political divide, lingering civil unrest, and in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health illnesses are on the rise and have only highlighted the systemic loopholes in mental health services.