Authors :
Salome Alice Sijenyi
Volume/Issue :
Volume 7 - 2022, Issue 7 - July
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DOI :
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6975805
Abstract :
ct:- Kenya has no policy on tackling mental health
challenges amongst adolescents,thus perpetuating
adolescent pregnancy which is costing the country’s
GDP US $168, 028, 000. From 2018 to 2021, 1.4 million
adolescents got pregnant, driving up the cases of
maternal and child morbidity and mortality. Kenya
launched its Mental Health Policy in 2015 and its
subsequent regulations to control adolescent pregnancy.
However, the ambitious Kenya Mental Health Action
Plan 2021-2025 risks missing its targets because of
heightened political activities in the country currently.
This paper proposes that the national government
declares Adolescent mental health a national public
health emergency to stop the resultant intergenerational
cycle of poverty and poor health outcomes.
ct:- Kenya has no policy on tackling mental health
challenges amongst adolescents,thus perpetuating
adolescent pregnancy which is costing the country’s
GDP US $168, 028, 000. From 2018 to 2021, 1.4 million
adolescents got pregnant, driving up the cases of
maternal and child morbidity and mortality. Kenya
launched its Mental Health Policy in 2015 and its
subsequent regulations to control adolescent pregnancy.
However, the ambitious Kenya Mental Health Action
Plan 2021-2025 risks missing its targets because of
heightened political activities in the country currently.
This paper proposes that the national government
declares Adolescent mental health a national public
health emergency to stop the resultant intergenerational
cycle of poverty and poor health outcomes.
