Including Youth With Mental Health Conditions | Division for Inclusive Social Development (DISD)

Encompassing more than one billion, today’s generation of youth is the largest the world has ever known. For some of them, mental-health conditions are the leading causes of adjustment problems, affecting their integration into society and employability. A new report has just been released by UN DESA’s Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD) to shed light and raise awareness on this issue.

Although young people are generally considered a healthy age group, 20 per cent experience some form of mental-health condition, including behavioural disorders, which is expected to contribute significantly to disability and lost productivity across the life course.

To address this issue, a new report entitled “Social Inclusion of Youth with Mental Health Conditions”, has just been issued by DSPD based on a background paper prepared by a group of professors at the University of Virginia and John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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SOURCE: UNDESA DSPD