MUN Mental Health

Mental health refers to a broad array of activities directly or indirectly related to the mental well-being component included in the WHO's definition of health: "A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease"1, almost 450 million of people are affected by this problems and one in four people will be affected by mental health disorders at some points of their lives, in many cases they aren’t informed of this important part of their health. It caused by a stressful world, family problems, low self esteem, etc.

The Government of India is being affected by poor mental health of its inhabitants. There have been some recent solutions plans for the India Mental Health, as “The Mental Health Care Bill” which is supported by the United Nations and the parliament of India to improve the infrastructure, but the bill has so far not approved. It’s known that India has the highest number of suicides in the world. Every year, according to the World Health Organization census, of 804,000 suicides recorded worldwide in 2012, 258,000 were in India, this is that more than quarter part of the total suicides. The major problem is the youth of India, between 15 and 29 years old giving a rate of 35.5 out of 100,000 of deaths.. Actually there is 1 psychiatrist for every 343,000 Indians, and that’s too few to reduce the suicide rate and mental health problems. The attention and hygiene is lack at the hospitals, also there are few mental health hospitals in rural zones which is worrying because the 70% of the population lives in this zones. India for many years has ignored mental health, that’s why we spend 0.06% of our health budget on mental health. the problems are that there are not enough help for suicidal acts, there are no rehabilitation facilities, mentally ill people are discriminated in their jobs, psychiatrist are not recognized for their jobs, the common mental illnesses aren’t well threatened, and in many cases this illness become chronic. “The health minister Harsh Vardhan launched India’s first ever National Mental Health Policy to provide psychiatric care to the population 20% which are suffering any mental illness by 2020” 2. An official approved mental health policy does not exist.

The United Nations has taken actions in order to reduce the effects of the mental health disorders, creating the World Health Organization (WHO), an organization that adopts resolutions on agenda topics by which it presents its recommendations related to global public health. Furthermore, the WHO provided information of the government programs for mental health one of them are the India's National Mental Health Programme that has been implemented since 1982, also it supports the plans that the India government takes for improve the mental care as in 2012 were it adopted the resolution, moved by India. The result is that A 12-member policy group entrusted to frame the National Mental Health Care Policy and Plan will prepare a situational analysis of the need for mental health care in the country, taking into account the issues of human resources, essential drug procurement and distribution, advocacy, prevention, and rehabilitation of mental health patients, this will replace the Mental Health act of 1982. So the United Nations, endorses the principle 1.1 of the resolution of the general assembly in 1991 that says “All persons have the right to the best available mental health care, which shall be part of the health and social care system”3. Also the WHO is partnered with UNHCR which provide refugees for post‐traumatic stress disorder.

The Republic of India recognizes that we should spend more of our health budget for mental health problems, and even more if we are one of the countries were more occur which is not normal . We propose the implementation of the “Rural

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