Celebrating Youth Day, UN stresses importance of good mental healthjueves, 21 agosto 2014 ![]()
Each year 20 per cent of the world’s young people experience a mental health condition, the United Nations reported in a new publication launched to coincide with International Youth Day which this year shines a spotlight on the importance of mental health.“The United Nations wants to help lift the veil that keeps young people locked in a chamber of isolation and silence,” Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in his message for the Day, stressing that mental-health should be talked about in the same way as overall health.
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