The Declaration of the National Emergency in Child and Adolescent Mental Health: It Takes a Village.

The Declaration of the National Emergency in Child and Adolescent Mental Health: It Takes a Village.

Publication date: Jul 01, 2024

Recognition of the high prevalence of children’s mental health conditions and challenges to accessing needed care faced by children and their families have been long-standing concerns, emerging well before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Global data examining the prevalence of at least one mental health and/or substance-use disorder for 2516 million people aged 5 to 24 years in 2019 found that at least 293 million people were affected by at least one mental health disorder and 31 million affected by a substance-use disorder.

Concepts Keywords
24years Adolescent
Covid Child
Emergency Child, Preschool
Global Children and adolescents
Health COVID-19
COVID-19
Humans
Mental Disorders
Mental Health
Mental health
Mental health emergency
Mental Health Services
Young Adult

Semantics

Type Source Name
disease MESH Emergency
disease MESH COVID-19 pandemic
disease MESH Mental Disorders

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