Mental Health among children and youth in the Skopje Region for the year 2021

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ABSTRACT Introduction: Mental health is a state of mental well-being enabling people to cope with life’s stresses, realize their potential, learn well and work well, and contribute to their community. Risks of mental health disorders can manifest at all stages of life, but those that occur during developmentally sensitive periods, especially early childhood, are harmful. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to give a complete overview of the incidence of mental illness in children and school children and youth in the Skopje region for the year 2021 in the outpatient - polyclinic activity. Research methodology: As a working material, a standard summary report on the established morbidity in the primary health care offices of small, school children and youth was used. The social-medical work method and descriptive statistics methods were used. Results and discussion: In 2021, in health institutions (practices) that provide health care for small and school children in the area of Skopje region, there were reports of disorders from 249 practices that examined small children and 137 practices for school children. A total of 462,895 visits were made in these clinics. In the structure of the total determined morbidity, mental disorders in young children amount to 0.55%. The distribution of mental disorders in this group of children is the highest (1.27%) in males aged 5-6 years. The number of disorders of the “Disorders in psychological development” group