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Introduction: The prevalence of mental health disorders continues to increase yearly worldwide. Low mental health literacy has been identified as the leading cause of the increasing prevalence of mental disorders. In order to improve community awareness of mental health-related issues, including students, exploring health science students at the university level is also essential. This study aimed to investigate mental health literacy among health science students. Materials and Methods: This study is quantitative with a cross-sectional study design. The study was conducted from May to October 2022 at a state university. The population is health sciences students of Universitas Hasanuddin in Indonesia. The participants were selected by a simple random sampling method. The data collected through the Mental Health Literacy Scale for Healthcare Students (MHLS-HS). We analyzed data by the descriptive statistics, ANOVA, Chi-square, Pearson Correlation tests, and SPSS software. Results: The results showed that predominantly participants were female (84.4%), Sulawesi ethnic (87.2%), living in urban areas (60.7%), frequently accessing mental health information (55.9%), and attending seminars and workshops (76.3%), have a moderate level on mental health literacy (51.2%). Information access has shown a statistically significant impact on mental health knowledge among health science students (P= 0.009). Conclusion: Mental health knowledge among health science students was correlated to information access, in which, more frequently, students accessing mental health information through online news/media could affect their knowledge. In order to strengthen the evidence, further study with large sample size and variables is needed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Medical Informatics (MI) is an emerging multidisciplinary study in academic fields. Also known as ‘Health Informatics,’ this study combines three different well-known fields; Information Systems (IS), Computer Science (CS), and Health Science (HS). MI is crucial because it could help in bridging the gap that is commonly found in conventional Healthcare services with the usage of Information Technology (IT). However, despite its vital role, the development of MI in Indonesia is still not satisfactory. Therefore, in this paper, the importance of MI as an academic discipline will be briefly discussed, followed by the description of MI development in Indonesia, and some suggestions for its future development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]