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Is Hungary a country of mental illness?
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It is time to take various mental illnesses much more seriously, mainly because those make a significant proportion of Hungarians incapable of work at an astonishingly high rate, according to the latest labour market overview of the Hungarian Academy Sciences (MTA).
The average health status of Hungarians cannot be said to be particularly bright in the EU, because, for example, only Latvian, Lithuanian, Bulgarian and Romanian men have a lower life expectancy at birth than Hungarian men, and only Romanian and Bulgarian women have a lower life expectancy at birth than Hungarian women.
The publication of the Research Center for Economics and Regional Studies ( Közgazdaság- és Regionális Tudományi Kutatóközpont KRTK), which has been published annually since 2020 and examines the links between health and the labour market this year, also states that Hungarian men can expect good health only until the age of 60 and Hungarian women until the age of 62.
Hungarian men are acquiring at least one chronic illness before the retirement age.
In contrast, in Ireland, Sweden and Malta, for example, both women and men are in good health until 70 or more. The significant difference is mainly caused by the fact that in Hungary the health status lags in contrast to the European Union average, especially among the low-educated and the non-employed, said Anikó Bíró, a senior researcher at KRTK, to the Index. The co-author of Munkaerőpiaci Tükör adds that
“while, for example, Hungarian men with a degree are only four or five years at a disadvantage compared to Italian and Swedish men with a degree, Hungarian men without a high school diploma are twice as far behind.”
Anikó Bíró emphasises that in the light of their new research results, it would be time to pay much more attention to mental illness. All this is surprisingly supported by the terrific values of the low-educated Hungarian women aged 45-53 in particular. Symptoms of depression, for example, are three times more common than among European women with similar qualifications.
Based on domestic medicine consumption data, KRTK researchers also show that patients with physical and mental diseases work at a lower rate at home.
Looking at the Psycho gang in power, the answer to the question is: yes, it is.
I am surprised that the alcoholism aspect has not been mentioned. And smoking. Both are destroyers of health, the family budget & lead to reckless lifestyles causing all sorts of family trauma and social problems. I know that in my now deceased mothers’ large family there wasn’t a single descent brother who treated his family with respect and nurturing. That DNA has passed down, affected the generation that is now middle aged. How can people be welcomed into the workplace when they are miserable, hungover, sneaky (as all boozers are) and often in crisis due to what they have been up to at home?
The publication of the Research Center for Economics and Regional Studies ( Közgazdaság- és Regionális Tudományi Kutatóközpont KRTK), which has been published annually since 2020?
How does one report make this an in depth study?
All three, Mario, Ilona and Maria are right! The real CULPRIT is the 45 years of brainwashing by the Communist Era. The PIVOTAL POINT OF NO RETURN was the 56 REVOLUTION, when the chance to recover was lost to generations of INGRAINMENT of the loss of identity and self-respect. It will take another two to three generations to MAGYARÁZ their way back to NORMALITY. The government can help by making HEALTHEY SHOCK TREATMENTS like BANNING SMOKING P E R I O D !!