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Mental health in Lebanon: Tomorrow's silent epidemic
Lebanon is a middle-income country that has been recently crippled by several tragedies including the economic collapse, COVID-19, and the fourth of August Beirut port explosion, the world’s most powerful non-nuclear explosion of the twenty-first century. Recent data on mental health from Lebanon is...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8503814/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34660191 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mhp.2021.200218 |
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description | Lebanon is a middle-income country that has been recently crippled by several tragedies including the economic collapse, COVID-19, and the fourth of August Beirut port explosion, the world’s most powerful non-nuclear explosion of the twenty-first century. Recent data on mental health from Lebanon is summarised, and other topics such as the psychological impact of cumulative adversities and the role of international support in Lebanon are examined. Data from Lebanon shows severe levels of distress among the people, in a country with minimal resources. Given current adversities in Lebanon, recent data in the country, and the literature on adversity and mental health outcomes of man-made disasters, Lebanon is most likely going to face an epidemic in poor mental health. A call is made for the wider scientific community and international organizations to support the mental health field in the country and help prevent further negative mental health outcomes. Understanding how to better navigate mental health in places with extreme adversity and emergencies can be beneficial to other communities which might face similar challenges. |
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spelling | pubmed-85038142021-10-12 Mental health in Lebanon: Tomorrow's silent epidemic Farran, Natali Ment Health Prev Article Lebanon is a middle-income country that has been recently crippled by several tragedies including the economic collapse, COVID-19, and the fourth of August Beirut port explosion, the world’s most powerful non-nuclear explosion of the twenty-first century. Recent data on mental health from Lebanon is summarised, and other topics such as the psychological impact of cumulative adversities and the role of international support in Lebanon are examined. Data from Lebanon shows severe levels of distress among the people, in a country with minimal resources. Given current adversities in Lebanon, recent data in the country, and the literature on adversity and mental health outcomes of man-made disasters, Lebanon is most likely going to face an epidemic in poor mental health. A call is made for the wider scientific community and international organizations to support the mental health field in the country and help prevent further negative mental health outcomes. Understanding how to better navigate mental health in places with extreme adversity and emergencies can be beneficial to other communities which might face similar challenges. Elsevier GmbH. 2021-12 2021-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8503814/ /pubmed/34660191 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mhp.2021.200218 Text en © 2021 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
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title | Mental health in Lebanon: Tomorrow's silent epidemic |
title_full | Mental health in Lebanon: Tomorrow's silent epidemic |
title_fullStr | Mental health in Lebanon: Tomorrow's silent epidemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Mental health in Lebanon: Tomorrow's silent epidemic |
title_short | Mental health in Lebanon: Tomorrow's silent epidemic |
title_sort | mental health in lebanon: tomorrow's silent epidemic |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8503814/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34660191 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mhp.2021.200218 |
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