Spatial Variation In Mental Illness In Uttar Pradesh eBook

Master's Thesis from the year 2022 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Regional Geography, grade: A, Jawaharlal Nehru University , language: English, abstract: Geographical variation in mental illness in Uttar Pradesh suggests the need to formulate an inclusive plan that focuses in district with higher mental illness. Despite its enormous social burden, mental health remains a taboo, stigma, prejudice and fears. So, there is a need to educate people about the reality and mental illness is more common than the people realize. Mental health is an integral and essential component of health. Mental illness is one of the biggest problems which causes a major contribution in death and disease burden in different forms and it also increases the suicidal death risk among youth. Mental illness is seen to vary across time, within the same population at the same time.