The Global Mental-Health Crisis Demands New Thinking
Even rich-country psychiatric systems lack the capacity to offer traditional mental-health services as widely as needed. Fortunately, lower-resource countries have been pioneering new, scalable models for delivering high-quality, low-cost psychiatric care to communities where it was not previously available.
LONDON – The world is in the grips of a mental-health crisis. From rising climate anxiety in rich countries like the United States to intense trauma in conflict zones like Ukraine and Gaza (especially among children), psychological suffering has become widespread, and traditional health-care services cannot keep up. This leaves tens of millions of people at risk of serious pathologies and suicide.