Topic: Expanding Mental Health Resources
Country: China
Delegate Name: Fernando Perez
School: Instituto Educativo Olinca
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All China position papers GLIMUN 2018 committees
Approximately 450 million people alive today suffer from mental or behavioural disorders or from psychosocial problems in their lives around the world. As a result of this, a vast part of the population isn’t mentally fit to continue working proactively as a productor of society. These people do not, of course, live healthy and actively. They are more propense to not fulfilling their work, incorrect behaviour, inactive socializing, and more characteristics which can make the life of the population unpleasant and depressing.
The People's Republic of China is concerned about the way of life of its population and has implemented various social and economic measures to increase the mental health education in the country.
In the past decade China has decisively supported the economic sector in the mental health services. In addition to this in 2013 China implemented The Mental Health Law of the People’s Republic of China, which was updated in June 2018; such law promotes the health of the citizens and supports the rights of the patients. In support of this regulation, China also updated The National Planning Guideline for the Healthcare Service System, in which the treatment of patients with serious mental health disorders is promoted as well as the improvement of mental health services and programs, and the expansion of mental health education.
Such measurements have expanded the mental health education, which is destroying the cultural ignorance of the public, increasing attendance of the population to the mental health facilities and systems. It has engrossed the number of psychiatrist’s licensings all around China, thus developing the capacities to take care of patients in grave health conditions. All of this leads to the improvement in quality of mental health and the increasing rate of production in this sector to work hand in hand with China’s people to develop a mentally healthy society.
China is investing in research and analysis to achieve proper satisfaction of the mental health needs to become a well-being country.
