Nigeria Risks Mental Health Epidemic - Experts
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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
57% : Prof. Obindo, a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Jos, stressed the importance of decentralising mental health care.55% : Government must engage experts, involve parents, and strengthen family values because prevention starts from home," he said. LEADERSHIP recalls that Nigeria made a notable policy stride in January 2023 with the signing of the Mental Health Act, replacing the 65-year-old Lunacy Act.
43% : An associate professor of Psychiatry at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, and Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Dr. Charles Umeh, warned that the country may face a full-blown mental health crisis if urgent action is not taken to address the growing burden of mental illness, rising substance abuse, and the acute shortage of mental health professionals.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.
