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Mental health services in Mexico

Part of: BJPsych International Country Profiles Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Shoshana Berenzon ,
Héctor Sentíes  and
Elena Medina-Mora
Shoshana Berenzon
Affiliation:
National Institute of Psychiatry ‘Ramon de la Fuente Muñíz', Mexico City
Héctor Sentíes
Affiliation:
National Institute of Psychiatry ‘Ramon de la Fuente Muñíz', Mexico City
Elena Medina-Mora
Affiliation:
National Institute of Psychiatry ‘Ramon de la Fuente Muñíz', Mexico City, email medinam@imp.edu.mx
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Mexico is a culturally, socially and economically heterogeneous country, with a population of over 100 million. Although it is regarded as a country with a medium–high income according to World Bank criteria, inequality continues to be one of its main problems. In addition to this, the country is going through a difficult period. Large parts of the population face economic insecurity, as a result of which feelings of despair, fear and impotence are common. It is hardly surprising, then, that mental disorders should constitute a major public health problem: depression is the main cause of loss of healthy years of life (6.4% of the population suffer from it), while alcohol misuse is the 9th (2.5%) and schizophrenia the 10th (2.1%) most common health problem (González-Pier et al, 2006).

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International Psychiatry , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , October 2009 , pp. 93 - 95
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