{"id":5691,"date":"2025-03-28T17:36:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T17:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/one-in-four-greek-young-adults-face-mental-health-issues-as-europe-tackles-rising-crisis\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T17:36:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T17:36:56","slug":"one-in-four-greek-young-adults-face-mental-health-issues-as-europe-tackles-rising-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/one-in-four-greek-young-adults-face-mental-health-issues-as-europe-tackles-rising-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"One In Four Greek Young Adults Face Mental Health Issues As Europe Tackles Rising Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-first=\"A\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A recent report from the World Health Organization\u2019s European branch, reveals a troubling mental health crisis among Greece\u2019s youth. One in four young adults in Greece, aged 15 to 29, is affected by a mental disorder, while self-harm ranks as the sixth leading cause of death for those aged 10 to 14 and 15 to 19.<\/h2>\n<p>Across Europe, the situation is equally alarming, with one in seven individuals from newborns to 19-year-olds experiencing some form of mental illness. Among Europeans aged 15 to 29, suicide is the top cause of death, underscoring the scale of the issue.<\/p>\n<p>To combat this, WHO Europe\u2019s Athens office has rolled out Quality Standards for Child and Youth Mental Health, presented at Greece\u2019s Health Ministry on March 27, 2025. Deputy Health Minister Dimitris Vartzopoulos stressed that these standards represent more than just recommendations\u2014they are a pledge to strengthen mental health care across WHO\u2019s European region, a priority shared by Greece\u2019s prime minister and the WHO regional director for Europe.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"article-tags entry-footer\">\n<div>\n\t\t<strong>Tags:<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\tAthens, Dimitris Vartzopoulos, Greece, Greek news, greek news on demand, greek news today, health ministry, mental health, Quality Standards, self-harm, suicide, WHO Europe, youth\t<\/div>\n<\/footer><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/2025\/03\/29\/who-report-one-in-four-greek-young-adults-face-mental-health-issues-as-europe-tackles-rising-crisis\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report from the World Health Organization\u2019s European branch, reveals a troubling mental health crisis among Greece\u2019s youth. One in four young adults in Greece, aged 15 to 29, is affected by a mental disorder, while self-harm ranks as the sixth leading cause of death for those aged 10 to 14 and 15 to &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"One In Four Greek Young Adults Face Mental Health Issues As Europe Tackles Rising Crisis\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/one-in-four-greek-young-adults-face-mental-health-issues-as-europe-tackles-rising-crisis\/#more-5691\" aria-label=\"Read more about One In Four Greek Young Adults Face Mental Health Issues As Europe Tackles Rising Crisis\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2-15-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}