(Two Sessions Express) Heart Disease Needs "Heart Medicine" Medical Committee Calls for the Establishment of National Mental Health Testing System
China News Service, Beijing, March 9th (Liu Peng) "Personal mental illness may be fermented into social instability.'Heart disease' needs'heart medicine' medical treatment. Mental health services in all departments and industries are fully covered. It helps to detect psychological problems in time and intervene early.” At the two sessions of the National Committee, Zhang Guangdong, a member of the CPPCC National Committee and Deputy Secretary-General of the Henan Provincial Committee of the CPPCC, brought a proposal on “establishing a nationwide mental health testing system”.
According to Zhang Guangdong, psychological problems seriously affect personal health, family harmony, and social stability.
Relevant experts' investigation and research found that psychological problems are tending to be younger.
Vicious campus incidents caused by students' psychological problems, social security and criminal cases caused by adults' psychological problems are frequently reported in the newspapers.
"In terms of mental and psychological disease prevention, although we have made some explorations and achievements, such as entering campuses, communities, and enterprises for psychological counseling, on the whole, the public's awareness of mental and psychological problems is not high. Medical institutions The recognition of related diseases is not enough, mental health testing, psychological consultation and other work still urgently need to be professionalized and standardized." Zhang Guangdong said.
What is the state of mental health of the people?
The "Chinese National Mental Health Report (2019-2020)" released earlier this month gave the answer: In 2020, the mental health literacy standard rate of Chinese adolescents is 14.24%; the mental health of left-behind children needs urgent attention; low-income, low-educated, unemployed or unemployed The mental health problems of the unemployed are more prominent; 27.7% of medical workers may be depressed.
Zhang Guangdong suggested that the government should take the lead to formulate a unified national mental health testing mechanism, just like physical examinations, to conduct mental health testing for the entire population on a regular basis.
The high-standard construction can provide students, teachers, employees and various special groups with a psychological testing platform and a mental health big data platform for hierarchical network management.
"For example, the school can query, count, and analyze the mental health status of all teachers and students in the school according to various dimensions such as student grade, gender, age, and major; the Education Bureau can query, count, and analyze the mental health status of all teachers and students in its jurisdiction with one click. "Zhang Guangdong said that based on the big data provided by the mental health testing system, relevant psychological policies have been introduced to prevent serious psychological problems and campus vicious incidents between teachers and students, and reduce the social instability caused by this.
Zhang Guangdong also believes that at present, the government's investment in mental health is far less than that in physical health. In fact, there are many physical diseases caused by the somatization of mental diseases, especially physical symptoms such as severe anxiety, depression, high blood pressure, insomnia, irritability, dizziness, headache, muscle aches, and even suicide. To this end, Zhang Guangdong suggested that the government should include mental illness prevention and psychological testing expenditures into the government's annual budget. (Finish)