Gaming disorder is a new entry to the latest version of the international directory of diseases, it was announced yesterday.
The International Classification of Diseases – ICD-11 – also includes a section on traditional medicine for the first time.
And modernisations include a reclassification of gender incongruence – which is now listed under sexual health rather than mental health.
Gaming disorder is listed in a section on addictive disorders.
World Health Organisation director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: “The ICD is a product that WHO is truly proud of.
“It enables us to understand so much about what makes people get sick and die, and to take action to prevent suffering and save lives."
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