Psychiatry and public health: How to reduce social barriers to psychiatric care?

This applies to virtually all social groups, although, as Prof. Dominika Dudek, President of the Board of Directors of the Polish Psychiatric Association, said, special attention should be paid to children and adolescents on the one hand (which is talked about a lot) and seniors on the other (which is hardly talked about, or at any rate - rarely). - There are a lot of seniors facing mental crises, and there will be even more, she stressed. What is needed is a comprehensive senior policy, one of the goals of which should be to activate seniors and pull them - literally - out of loneliness, which is a risk factor for the onset of depression, among other things.

- Undoubtedly, we are diagnosing more and more psychiatric disorders, perhaps even a bit exaggeratedly," admitted Prof. Agata Szulc, head of the Psychiatric Clinic of the Faculty of Health Sciences at WUM, noting that there is a clear increase in the proportion of diagnoses of depression, which the WHO predicts could become the first cause of sickness absence in ...