# GLOBAL-MENTAL-HEALTH-DISORDER-TREND-AFRICA-AS-A-CASE-STUDY
This Power BI dashboard provides insights into mental health disorder trends in Africa, highlighting various mental health conditions, their prevalence, and contributing factors. The analysis is broken down into key metrics, trends, and influencing factors.
1. Key Mental Health Metrics
The dashboard provides high-level statistics on various mental health conditions:
Anxiety Disorder: 1.04M cases
Depression Rate: 146bn
Drug Use Rate: 200K
Eating Disorder Cases: 39K
Schizophrenia Cases: 52K
Suicide Rate: 468K
Bipolar Disorder Cases: 194K
Alcohol Consumption Cases: 370K
These figures indicate a significant mental health burden in Africa, with depression and anxiety disorders being the most prevalent.
2. Suicide and Depression Analysis
The pie chart shows the suicide rate is strongly linked to depression, with suicide rates remaining around 5.73% - 5.74% across different cases.
The line chart on depression prevalence over the years indicates a steady increase in depression cases from 1990 to 2020. This suggests that mental health conditions are becoming more widespread, possibly due to socio-economic changes, increasing awareness, or worsening mental health conditions.
3. Influencing Factors for Depression
The dashboard identifies key demographic and behavioral factors influencing depression:
Higher male population prevalence (>3.5%) leads to a 0.79% increase in depression rates.
Higher female population prevalence (>4.45%) leads to a 0.52% increase.
Alcohol use disorders ≤ 0.65% contribute to a 0.49% rise in depression rates.
Drug use disorders (0.51 - 0.57%) contribute to a 0.46% rise.
This suggests that population demographics, substance use, and addiction play a significant role in mental health trends.
4. Regional Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders
The bar chart compares the prevalence of different mental health and substance use disorders across African countries such as:
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