1 Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
2 Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
Int J Soc Psychiatry. 2019 Mar;65(2):92-97. doi: 10.1177/0020764018819631. Epub 2018 Dec 29.
The World Economic Forum (2011) concluded that the economic impact of mental illness is the single most important contributor among all non-communicable diseases to loss of productivity. The 21 economies represented by Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) responded to that information with efforts to address mental health as an integral component of economic development.
In order to help assess the progress of APEC region compared to other regions of the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) granted us access to a subset of the 2014 Mental Health Atlas database containing health indicators from all 21 APEC economies.
APEC-specific data were extracted using the same format used by WHO in its Mental Health Atlas to compare/contrast data in APEC versus the six WHO regions of the world.
It was observed that mental health workforces in APEC include a higher number of psychiatrist providers compared with WHO regions. Suicide rates reported in three APEC economies are among the highest in the world. All APEC economies continue their individual and coordinated efforts to support their ' APEC Roadmap to Promote Mental Wellness in a Healthy Asia Pacific (2014-2020)'.
Significant challenges for APEC members exist to coordinate regional efforts to improve mental health due to highly variable income levels, existing health infrastructures and social preferences. The findings in this report may serve as a helpful baseline for measuring success within the APEC region by 2020, the year in which progress in support of economic development will be reassessed.
世界经济论坛（2011 年）得出结论，精神疾病对生产力的损失的影响在所有非传染性疾病中是最重要的单一因素。亚太经合组织（APEC）的 21 个经济体根据这一信息做出回应，将精神健康作为经济发展的一个组成部分。
为了帮助评估 APEC 地区与世界其他地区相比的进展情况，世界卫生组织（WHO）允许我们访问 2014 年《心理健康地图集》数据库的一个子集，其中包含来自 APEC 所有 21 个经济体的健康指标。
使用世卫组织在其《心理健康地图集》中使用的相同格式提取 APEC 特定数据，以比较/对比 APEC 与世界卫生组织六个区域的数据。
观察到 APEC 的精神卫生工作队伍中精神病医生的人数多于世卫组织区域。三个 APEC 经济体报告的自杀率是世界上最高的。所有 APEC 经济体都在继续努力支持他们的“亚太经合组织促进健康亚太地区精神健康路线图（2014-2020 年）”。
由于收入水平、现有卫生基础设施和社会偏好高度不同，APEC 成员在协调区域努力改善精神健康方面存在重大挑战。本报告中的调查结果可以作为衡量 APEC 地区到 2020 年成功的一个有用基准，届时将重新评估支持经济发展的进展情况。
