French Presidential: What rescue for mental health?
13 million people are affected by mental disorders in France.
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By: Caroline Paré Follow
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Before the French presidential election, the Priorité Santé team chose to devote a series of programs to the major challenges in terms of health on a national scale.
This week, we are talking about the crisis affecting psychiatry, while according to the Ministry of Solidarity and Health, one in five people is affected each year by a mental disorder.
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Of these 13 million people concerned in France, only 40% to 60% are supported.
While the suicide rate in France is one of the highest in European countries of comparable development, and the Covid crisis has brought to light the mental disorders from which the French suffer, mental health remains the poor relation of the tricolor system.
Dr Delphine Glachant,
psychiatrist at
the Murets hospital
(Val-de-Marne) and president of
the Union Syndicale de la Psychiatrie (USP)
and member of
Printemps de la psychiatrie
Stéphane Cognon
, mediator-health-peer at
the Paris University Hospital Group psychiatry & neurosciences
for pole 15. Author of
I'm back from a long trip, Candide in the land of schizophrenics
, published by Frison-Roche
Reporting by
Igor Strauss
in Rouen, Normandy
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