Professor, Department of Applied Economics Director, Women's Studies Centre, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, Kerala, India
Online published on 30 March, 2016.
Poverty, gender discrimination, use of alcohol, stress of modern life, conflicts and natural disasters are the major risk factors identified for mental illness nation-wide. But in the absence of an official mental health survey, there is little data on the number of people who suffer from this illness.
