Articles about Health

Japan's Jiritsu Shien scheme cuts your share of insured psychiatric care from 30% to 10%, with a monthly cap from ¥2,500 to ¥10,000 by income. It is not automatic: you ap...

The Warsaw detail worth knowing is the clock: register at a mental health centre and first contact follows within 72 hours, no referral needed. When the wait pushes you p...

Spanish law forbids the psychologists' colleges from even recommending a fee, and the competition authority has fined colleges for keeping price scales. So the only real ...

Finland's central number is a rebate, not a price: Kela pays a fixed amount per session toward rehabilitative psychotherapy, and therapists set their own fees. What you p...

How many young people live with mental health conditions, from World Health Organization estimates and national surveys on every continent. Every figure states the ages i...

How many people live with alcohol and drug use disorders, how many die from alcohol, drugs and tobacco, and how few get treatment. Every figure says who was counted, how ...

People with mental disorders die earlier than other people, mostly from physical illness. It sets out the mortality gap, the links between depression, heart disease and d...

How people respond after a traumatic event, from surveys in many countries and studies that followed people over time in six world regions, plus what trials of resilience...

How often people have insomnia disorder, insomnia symptoms or short sleep, and what studies show about insomnia, depression and anxiety. Every figure says who was counted...

How well therapy works for depression and anxiety in pooled trials, how it compares with medication, and how many people with a mental disorder get any treatment. Every f...

How access to mental health care and therapy differs between richer and poorer countries, ethnic groups, women and men, and cities and rural areas. Every figure says who ...

PhilHealth splits its benefit in a way that decides talking therapy: the ₱9,000 general package excludes psychotherapy, which sits in the ₱16,000 specialty package claime...