The new report, which emphasizes the imbalance in mental health care, ranked 49th in Alabama, compared to other states and columns.
Mental Health America For policy and program planning, we have collected data that is looking at the mental health of teenagers and adults.
According to the report, New York, Hawaii and New Jersey accounted for the highest ranking in terms of low prevalence of mental health care and mental illness. On the contrary, Alabama, Arizona and Nevada show that the prevalence of mental illness is high and lowers access to treatment.
Alabama took the worst in this country for youth with personal insurance that does not deal with the possibility of using mental health labor and mental or emotional problems.
According to the report, 23.4%of American adults have experienced mental illness last year and influenced more than 60 million people. In addition, 5.5%reported serious thoughts about suicide and exceeded 14 million people. Drug use disorders affect 17.7%of adults and are the same as those with more than 46 million people. Alabama was 18th, with low prevalence of adult mental illness and high access to treatment.
The mental health of the youth has been improved from 2023 to 2024, but the problem still remains. The percentage of adolescents who experienced major depressed episodes decreased from 18.10%in 2023 to 15.40%in 2023, but 11.3%of adolescents caused serious obstacles due to depression, which affected daily function. Alabama ranked 50th because of the high prevalence of mental illness between children and teenagers and low access to treatment.
The approach to mental health care remains an important issue, and last year, 28.6%of the youth did not visit preventive health. In addition, 77.09%of adults with drug disorders were not treated, and one in four adults with mental illness reported that mental health was not met.
