Mental health: build predictive models to steer policy

Nature September 26, 2021
Jo-An Occhipinti, Adam Skinner , P. Murali Doraiswamy , Cameron Fox , Helen Herrman , Shekhar Saxena , Elisha London , Yun Ju Christine Song & Ian B. Hickie

Combine economic, social and medical data to forecast need and design services to address the growing crisis.

A crisis is growing in mental health as the widespread impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic hardship it has brought bites deeper. In Japan, suicides rose by 16% during the second wave of the pandemic, from July to October 2020, compared with the rate in previous years¹. In the United States, 25% of people aged 18–24 surveyed in June 2020 reported increased substance use to cope with pandemic-related stress². This year, the flagship report of the United Nations children’s charity UNICEF, The State of the World’s Children, focused on child and adolescent mental health and well-being for the first time. If...

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