Since the start of the Covid-19 crisis, psychiatric disorders have exploded among adolescents. Distance learning, confinement, loss of social life, lack of physical activity… The consequences of the various government measures can already be seen in this particularly vulnerable population. Health professionals are warning of the increase in requests for care from these young people.
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Addiction to social networks: what are the warning signs?
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
Instagram “can help” troubled youth, and “works for the good” of teenagers. This is what his boss Adam Mosseri said last December during his hearing before the American Congress. These declarations followed the revelations of the Wall Street Journal which had published internal studies of Facebook demonstrating the harmful consequences of its subsidiary Instagram on the image and the mental health of its youngest users.
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With the Covid-19 pandemic, big pharma like Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna hit the jackpot: pre-tax profits of $34 billion last year (2021), or $1,000 per second, according to the report. NGO People’s Vaccine Alliance. And they are not the only ones to benefit economically from the health crisis. Many companies benefit from new markets, which illustrate the general concern of the inhabitants of the planet for their health.
What are the industrial recipes for this success? What are the challenges for States negotiating contracts? What place should be given to innovation and how should it be financed? Where is Africa lagging behind in the development of these pharmaceutical industries?
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– Nathalie Coutinet, health economist, lecturer at the University of Paris 13.
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On the occasion of the Congress of the Encephalon which is held from January 19 to 21 at the Palais des Congrès in Paris, we are talking regarding anxiety disorders.
If anxiety is a normal feeling of worry, anxiety, it can become disabling by becoming chronic. Frequent, anxiety disorders would affect approximately, each year, 2 to 8% of the adult population. Among these disorders, psychic distress stands out, which can prevent action or even lead to making bad decisions. How to identify these anxiety disorders? What support is there?
- Dr. Antoine Lesur, psychiatrist, specialist in anxiety disorders and depression. Member of CNQSP (National College for the Quality of Psychiatric Care). Author of the book Psychic distress, a new approach to care, published by Odile Jacob
- Dr Mariama Barry, psychiatrist at the CHU Donka, in Conakry and in charge of the Mental Health Unit at the level of the Ministry of Health of Guinea.
At the end of the program, we take stock of the Centenary of the Overseas Academy of Sciences (ASOM). We talk regarding it with the Professor Jean-Philippe Chippaux, Emeritus Research Director at theResearch Institute for Development in Paris.