Mental illness led to the reasons for young people with disabilities: Research Australia

Depression and schizophrenia and other mental illnesses of young people around the world the main reason for disability, Australian researchers said on Tuesday.

Melbourne's Murdoch Children's Institute, from the researchers of the World Health Organization has been working with "disease burden " of young people.

Use of international data to calculate, scientists ranked all the various health conditions. Then they take to the number of years a person may live with disabilities. Over the years, researchers also believe that the loss of their disease.

According to the research paper co-author, Professor George Patton in the number of participants felt that millions of the world, which found that 10 per cent of 45-24 affordable - year-old may be due to mental disorders.

In particular, depression, schizophrenia, self-mutilation, alcoholism and bipolar disorder among the top 10 disability burden.

In high-income countries such as Australia, mental illness accounts for two thirds of the age group two-thirds of the disease burden.

"This is mainly because we have been working with the burden of disease (such as AIDS and tuberculosis) are very successful transaction for other reasons, " Professor Patton told The Associated Press on Tuesday Australia.

"(local) burden of disease caused by the death of disability, not the conditions. "

Also contribute to the disease burden of 10 to 24-year-old children's accidental injury in Australia (twelve percent), and (ten percent) of infectious diseases.

He pointed out that the burden of disease with increasing age.

Meanwhile, Professor Patton said the study, the first analysis of the global causes of disability puberty can be used to identify risk factors for disease in later life.

"Although the taking of life, young people, their health may not be the immediate effect, they have a significant impact later in life, " he said.

"Interventions to address health risk behaviors and unhealthy lifestyles are likely to be more than the adult years to establish effective fixed pattern. "

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