Mastodawn

Life #insurance for #depression on the cards
🧐"According to #Thailand's Department of #Mental #Health, more than 1.5 million people aged 18 through #retirement age -- or around 17% of te population -- are living with depression. Of every 100 patients, only 28 are able to access #treatment.. Thailand recorded an average of 6 #suicide attempts per hour, or more than 53,000 attempts a year, with around 4,000 #deaths, making suicide one of te country's leading #causesofdeath"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/general/3189130/life-insurance-for-depression-on-the-cards

@clive It’s interesting to explore #CausesOfDeath further, especially from a global perspective, here:

To find ways to save lives, it’s essential to know what people are dying from. Explore global data and research on causes of death.

Our World in Data

A new study shows that people don't overestimate the frequency of dramatic #causesofdeath because of greater #media coverage. Deaths in the personal environment are more important for the #riskperception: http://go.tum.de/660755

📷A. Heddergott

A TUM study has disproved the decades-old assumption that people overestimate the risk of dying from a dramatic cause of death.

#CausesOfDeath
Many leading causes of #death receive little mainstream attention. If news reports reflected what children died from, they would say that around 1,400 young children die from diarrheal diseases, 1,000 die from malaria, and 1,900 from respiratory infections – every day.
This can change. Over time, death rates from these causes have declined across the world.
https://ourworldindata.org/causes-of-death?insight=causes-of-death-have-changed-over-time-and-vary-by-age