{"id":3172,"date":"2019-06-18T09:16:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T09:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:21","slug":"cost-of-poor-mental-health-on-economic-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/18\/cost-of-poor-mental-health-on-economic-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost Of Poor Mental Health On Economic Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>By<\/strong><\/em><strong> <\/strong><em><strong>Kellen Kiambati<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is estimated that\nworldwide one in every four people will be affected by mental disorders at some\npoint in life with around 450 million currently battling mental disorders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the middle-income\ncountries, over 50 percent of general population are likely to suffer at least\none of the over two hundred mental disorders at some point in their lives. From\nthe stated statistics mental disorders should be treated as a major health\nchallenge and handled with the seriousness that the issue deserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The consequences of\nunaddressed mental disorders cost economic growth a big deal. Research has\nshown that one poor mental heal day in a month per person contributes to 1.84\npercent drop in the per capita real income growth rate resulting to less total\nincome each year\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/analysis\/letters\/Cost-poor-mental-health-economic-growth\/4307714-5161090-xwlelf\/index.html\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kellen Kiambati It is estimated that worldwide one in every four people will be affected by mental disorders at some point in life with around 450 million currently battling&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}