india is poor as shit and toxic. i don't mean "inferior", "rude", or "unwanted" when i say toxic. i mean "the food, air, and water is laced with toxins, pollutants, and pathogens". india has an amplified mental health burden due to its literal environmental toxicity. the thing concealing this mental health burden is that they're too poor to have modern mental health provisioning. they lose productivity due to forms of bad health that their society is too poor to compensate for. i don't think they should jump into medical health provisioning, mostly. i do think specifically antipsychotics should be globally subsidized to free provision to the end user in all nations; i don't know which nations already do this. antipsychotics are radically effective for the people who benefit from them. yet in other respects, i am skeptical of the economic efficiency of mental healthcare provisioning, so although mental health issues can weigh heavily on the poor, still i classify most mental healthcare as a luxury good. so what do i recommend instead? tackle the problem at the level of tackling toxicity! i think they need food regulations, water infrastructure, new emissions laws, and better defense of their environment. these things would slow their emigration rates, increase their development level, and lead to a higher standard of rationality on the homefront. modern capitalist dogma is irrationally anti-regulatory. libertarians focus on the seen cost of regulatory compliance and neglect to observe the hidden value of a well-regulated economy. the regulatory regimes of the first world nation played a key role in the creation of the conditions for long-term growth. rather than insisting on replicating the long misery of the robber baron era in every developing nation, we should seek to establish a global regime of rational regulations so that every part of the planet can become just, happy, healthy, and free.
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