Mental Health Issues In Malaysia

Petaling jaya a total of 8 380 calls were recorded on the covid 19 hotline since the early days of the movement control order mco with many of them related to mental health issues says. Common signs of poor mental health are feeling down loss of. What policymakers fail to understand is that the direct costs of mental illnesses are less than the indirect costs for mental illnesses.

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A mental health advocate estimates mental health issues among employees may have cost the country rm14 46 billion or 1 of malaysia s gross domestic product gdp in 2018 and.

Mental health issues in malaysia. Mental health issues are significant health issues that can negatively affect a person s relationships productivity and physical health. Malaysia spends 2 35 of its gdp on health and 0 39 of this is allocated towards mental health with no specific mental health budget for community mental health programmes. Today approximately 30 of people in malaysia aged 16 years or older have mental health problems hassan et al.

According to the latest national health and morbidity survey every three in 10 adults aged 16 years and above in malaysia suffer from some form of mental health issues. 2018 with the estimated costs exceeding 80 million usd manaf et al. In fact the international journal of academic research in business and social sciences reported in an article highlighting the issues and challenges of mental health in malaysia wrote that that more than 50 of malaysians believe that when it comes to mental illness the sufferer is to blame for their condition while about 80 believe that there s no such thing as mental health problems.