There’s a major mental health summit taking place in Greece at the moment (you may have heard my colleague Pascale Harter reporting from there), and there are some stark statistics coming out of it. About 800,000 people commit suicide every year, and 86 per cent of them are from low- and middle-income countries. Yet, the WHO points out, in the developing world 2% of national health budgets are spent on mental healthcare. Continue reading ‘On air: Why aren’t we doing more about depression?’
Posts Tagged ‘Greece
10
Dec
08
On air: Greece is the word
Four days of violence and protests may well bring an unpopular government down in a seemingly untroubled part of the EU. Today a general strike has been called to “up the ante”.
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