To such conclusions within the project which is carried out with the assistance of the World Health Organization (WHO) medical specialists of several universities of the world came.
They in detail studied data of 129 researches published from 1980 to 2017 in the medical magazine The Lancet. The received results show that the situation is much more difficult, than it was supposed earlier: mental disorders in a severe form 5 percent of the people living in zones of the conflicts, and another 13 percent - in easy have. It is noted that in the conditions of the conflict of the woman are more subject to mental diseases, than men, at the same time with age the risk of development of a mental disorder increases - regardless of a floor.
Specialists are sure that their research represents the most exact a picture for today: they used information published in nearly 30 years – from 1980 to August, 2017 – from 39 countries, and there the massif data and from those areas where the conflicts do not cease the last 10 years entered. Among them – Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Nigeria, Somalia, Syria and South Sudan. In 2016 the number of armed conflicts reached an absolute maximum: in 37 countries of the world at the same time there were 53 centers of tension, 12 percent of all population of Earth lived in zones of the conflict, and 69 million people were forced to leave the houses is the highest indicator for all post-war history.
The important role in prevention and treatment of such diseases is allocated for WHO. One of authors of a research, Dr. Mark van Ommeren of World Health Organization explains: "Our organization for a number of the directions: first, we coordinate rendering psychological assistance by the victim of wars, secondly, we estimate what opportunities are available on places and what additional assistance can be required in these or those circumstances, and thirdly – we help with training of specialists. Our task is in that with political support of local authorities to create conditions for rendering high-quality psychological and mental health care to the population".
The data provided in a research will allow to determine more precisely the volume of resources which are required for the help to the people suffering from mental diseases as a result of the conflicts. His authors make a reservation that, in view of cultural and other discrepancies of a concept of mental diseases, their conclusions can be not absolutely exact for a number of the countries. Nevertheless, their estimates speak about need to help the people living in conflict zones and to allocate for a solution of the problem of mental disorders of additional resources.
In a research specialists of WHO, University of Queensland took part in Australia, the University of Washington and also Harvard University.