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Addressing And Supporting Mental Health Today: Society-Wide And In Hospital Emergency Departments, Kira La Sage
Addressing And Supporting Mental Health Today: Society-Wide And In Hospital Emergency Departments, Kira La Sage
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Mental health has become one of the most pressing public health issues of the 21st Century. Westernized societies offer much of their attention to childhood obesity, to COVID-19, to undiagnosed and diagnosed Americans living with diabetes. America even sees extended U.S. Senate hearings focusing on opioid use and abuse. Each of these concerns legitimately commands public health official attention, but what the world does not see is any level of sustainable attention given to emotional and mental health crises affecting tens of millions in Westernized countries. Suicide, the most serious of mental health crises, has become the second leading cause …