Blog 2 - Mental health in Chile

Hello, reader. Today, I want to tell you about the mental health and its system on our country. 

In Chile 22,3% of the population has a diagnosed mental health problem. I emphasize in "diagnosed" because there is a lot of people with a mental health problem without a diagnosis, in some cases because they never went to a psyquiatric consultation or for any other reason. That means that this percentage may be definitely higher. And from that porcentage of diagnosed, just a 35,8% receive a treatment. As you can see, the mental health in our country has a little scope.

About the most common pathologies, 6,5% of the population has ansiety and 5% has depression. In the case of suicide, 1 in 100.000 people commits suicide. That means that 5 people die in one day in our country because of that, which puts us in the 4th place of latin american countries with higher suicide rates. 

Regarding the financing of menthal health in our country, just 2,4% of the total financing for health goes to mental health, wich, translated into money, means that each person is entitled to $138 for mental health care.  The ideal is to reach 5%, that is the minimum amount established by the World Health Organization. 

About the pathologies included in the Explicit Health Guarantees Law (know as GES), there are schizophrenia, depression and bipolarity in over 15 years old people, Alzheimer's and other dementias, and alcohol or drugs harmful consumption or low or moderate risk dependence in under 20 years old people. An that's all.


Now, talking about specific mental health regulation, Chile doesn't have one, wich let us in the 40% countrys of the world that have not a Mental Health Law, a big problem if we consider that mental condictions are the main source of disease burden. According to the DALY index, 23% of the lost years to disability or dead are caused by neuropsychiatric diseases. 

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  1. Josefina16 de mayo de 2021 a las 20:05

    Thanks for sharing this information, it is really concerning. Fortunately, lately, people have started talking about mental health. I hope these statistics change positively, expanding the coverage given to them.

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