The Economic Impact of Mental Health Illness and Public Perceptions: A Critical Investigation of the Nigerian State.

Abstract

The role of mental health is critical to any economy. With the high incidence of social economic problems within the Nigerian economy, thus leads to high rate of mental health illness. There are very few researches that have investigated the prevalence of mental health issues within the Nigerian economy and critical identify and discuss the prevalence factors impacting the perception of Nigerian public about mental health. This paper examined existing literature on the mental health Issues and illness, identified the critical features of the theory that are relevant to this paper and robustly discuss the impact of mental health issues on the Nigerian Economy. This study spanned the years 2012 through 2023 and a systematic literature review (SLR) was performed, and the research revealed crucial supply chain management and environmental analysis to enable this paper identify suitable articles and journals. A SLR was performed using a sample of 120 research articles chosen from a pool of 350 papers obtained from Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, ABS journal and, among other sources. The paper concluded that mental health illness is prevalence in Nigeria and without a robust policy implementation, this will impact the Nigerian Economy.