Hur många procent är det som har mentala problem, av dom som bor kvar
i Thailand ?
Enligt en rapport ca: 30% (kan inte hitta länken just nu)
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PHITSANULOK, Sept 20 -- Public Health Minister Surawit Khonsomboon said Thailand currently has more than 3 million mental patients, but only one-third of them are receiving treatment, at the country’s 17 mental hospitals nationwide.
By 2070 when Thailand becomes more urbanised, society in general will be more fragile and more people will consequently suffer from mental problems.
Urbanisation will be more intensified in eastern Thailand and family size will be smaller, while more women will become family leaders, Dr Surawit predicted.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has been concerned with the increasing number of patients from depression worldwide, he said.
Depression has moved up from the fourth rank in 1990 to the second, after heart problems, among five most serious ailments. If nothing is done, depression may contribute to a higher suicide rate.
In its development plan on mental service for 2013-2016, the Public Health Ministry will expand service to all age groups including children, women, teenagers and elderly people.
According to the ministry’s goal, 70 per cent of Thai people of all ages will be free from mental problems and the emotional quotient of at least 70 per cent of young people will not be lower than the universal standard. The suicide rate must be less than 6.5 persons per 100,000 persons.
The public health minister on Wednesday received a donated plot of land in the northern province of Phitsanulok to build a mental hospital. (MCOT online news)

-- TNA 2012-09-20