Every 15 minutes someone dies from completing suicide, that's roughly thirty-eight thousand suicides each year to put that into perspective that's, twice as many people that die from traffic fatalities in a year.
So what's happening, well roughly 90 percent of all suicides are related to mental health illnesses and global mental health is an area of Public Health that's a little bit behind.
The World Health Organization defines health as a state of complete physical mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity there it is right there.
Mental well-being is part of the definition of health, so why is it that we are so timid around this topic well it's because mental health is frequently stigmatized around the world.
And some cultures don't even have words to describe mental health illnesses on top of that, it's a difficult topic to discuss this is exactly what global mental health professionals work to address.
They want to break the stigma around mental health to decrease the global burden of disease due to mental.
And neurological disorders and to improve the overall well-being of people but mental health and well-being go be and neurological health.
Did you know that depression is a risk factor for developing chronic diseases like hypertension cardiovascular disease and diabetes mental health is a complicated area to study it is extremely integral for our person.
Well-being and health can be affected by so many things like the community you live in your access to care sexuality whether or not you substances like alcohol tobacco or other drugs.
Professionals can be researchers scientists physicians field staff and even people working in outreach some work with health care and data analysis some work in the humanitarian setting with refugees and asylum seekers.
Some work in clinical or hospital settings and some work with organizations to change policies and ide more resources to people.