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