Mental health services in state

Relative to its economic indicators, state includes a high health standing. The life within the year 2001 was seventy.7 years for males and seven5.4 years for females. Maternal and death rate rates have shown a downward trend over the past 0.5 century and currently ar around two.3 per ten 000 live births and sixteen per one thousand live births, severally. These trends ar principally thanks to the high attainment rate and relatively massive investments created in health and welfare.

The situation concerning psychological state care services is extremely completely different. As in several developing countries, negative attitudes to mental disease, social stigma and an absence of appreciation of the suffering and incapacity caused by mental disease have resulted in low priority being given to psychological state care services in state. this example is, however, setting out to modification.

Author(s): Nalaka d Shilva

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