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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Rebecca Whittaker

More young women battle mental health than men due to ‘gendered violence’, experts warn

Gendered violence is driving a divide between the mental health of young women and men, experts have suggested.

One in five children now has a mental health condition, up from one in nine in 2017, according to a Health and Social Care Committee meeting on Wednesday. But for girls and young women aged 17 to 25, rates of mental health issues are twice as high as those of their male counterparts, figures from the Health Foundation show.

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