Essay On Barriers To Mental Health

Introduction

According to WHO (1946),” good health is a state of complete physical, social and mental well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” Not only physical health is important but also psychological health, and they both are regarded as the essential for social stability. However, mental health is not like physical health can be simply diagnosed by physical syndromes and it needs more evaluations so mental health is neglected easily. There is not a doubt that mental health is one of upsetting issues in the 21st century.
In this essay, mental health services issues raised in 2007 and 2011 in the Lancet series will be discussed and the purpose of this essay is going to illustrate the key barriers to scaling up mental health services and strategies to overcome them.

All over the world, there are amount people have been diagnosed with mental disorder but there are two-thirds of them are not treated in America and Europe which are regarded as developed countries, mental health services are not
Because the government of LAMIC have limited budget and mental health service is not the priority of funding which affects the development of mental health and mental health service do not have enough resource can apply. Besides, mental health is considered as including too many perspectives causing the various opinions on mental health so when it comes to providing mental health services, there will be difficult to put in practice. Moreover, it is hard to identify and include all the psychological diseases and mental health syndromes in primary care. In the provision of psychiatrists in LAMIC, they focus more on their profits for mental health services rather need of the population so when psychiatrists are providing mental health care, they might not offer what patients exactly needs but what they want to patients have for