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How did mental health become a social issue?

One in five illnesses worldwide affects the mind, yet mental health gets barely 2% of health budgets.

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Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction

Long pushed aside by medicine, mental health is becoming one of the great challenges of the 21st century. It is not just the absence of psychiatric disorders: it is a state of well-being that lets a person use their potential and cope with the difficulties of life.

A striking paradox remains: these disorders make up about 20% of illness worldwide, but receive only 2% of health budgets. This course digs into the roots of that silent crisis.

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  1. 2An underestimated health crisis
  2. 3Young people hit hardest
  3. 4A very concrete economic cost
  4. 5Toward prevention
Open-book quiz9 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary18 terms explained in a tap.
30 languagesThe same course, from French to Japanese.