Young Australians experienced higher levels of psychological distress than any other age group, with experts warning the upheaval and mental toll of living through a pandemic worsened chronic health conditions. census
Young Australians have reported far higher levels of psychological distress than any other age group with the census capturing the upheaval and mental toll of living through a pandemic.
“It raises some really important questions, one being: just how much of this is a reflection of our COVID situation?” she said. “It is almost impossible to answer this directly because we have never asked this question before in a census.” For the first time, the 2021 census also collected information on diagnosed, ongoing health conditions. It found more than 8 million people have a long-term health condition.of chronic diseases, it was closely followed by arthritis, which affected 2.1 million Australians. Asthma was the third most common long-term condition, with more than 2.06 million people reporting a diagnosis.
Working at home in her public service job during the 2020 and 2021 Melbourne lockdowns, Hall said she “brushed off her symptoms” due to the turbulence of adjusting to pandemic conditions. “It’s a really smart move to collect this data,” Moodie said. “Throughout the pandemic we’ve been talking about communicable diseases that are potentially fatal and happen very quickly. This is completely the opposite of the major other pandemics of chronic disease that have been going on in our world for the last 20 years.”
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