Percentage Of Mental Illness In Malaysia
Malaysia spends 2 35 of its gdp on health and 0 39 of this is allocated towards mental health with no specific mental health budget for community mental health programmes.
Percentage of mental illness in malaysia. Relate is going to take you through the report released by the institute for public health ministry of health malaysia. That is far from sufficient. Every 3 in 10 adults aged 16 years and above have some sorts of mental health problems 29 2. According to who malaysia dedicates 1 5 of the health care budget on mental health or approximately rm 375 million.
But sadly it did happen in malaysia. If you can t brain percentages this roughly translates to 3 out of 10 people. The prevalence of mental health problems among adults increased from 10 7 in 1996 to. Today approximately 30 of people in malaysia aged 16 years or older have mental health problems hassan et al.
2018 with the estimated costs exceeding 80 million usd manaf et al. This rm 375 million would be for mental health care in general. During the period surveyed eleven percent of respondents aged 18 to 24 years old stated that they have experienced mental health issues compared to two percent of those aged 55 years old and above. According to the latest national health and morbidity survey every three in 10 adults aged 16 years and above in malaysia suffer from some form of mental health issues.
February 2 2017 basic general huibee. Mental health in malaysia. According to the 2015 national health and morbidity survey pg. The same survey also showed the statistics for the prevalence of suicidal thoughts of 10 among the students which has increased by almost 3 from 7 9 in 2012.
A national survey by the ministry of health has revealed that malaysian teens aged 13 to 17 are critically suffering from mental health problems. General health questionnaire ghq it has been used by the national health and morbidity survey since 1996. Did you know that 1 in 3 malaysians are suffering from mental health issues.