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No health without public mental health the case for action

October 15, 2010

Mental health is a public health issue. Mental illness is the largest single source of burden of disease in the UK. No other health condition matches mental illness in the combined extent of prevalence, persistence and breadth of impact.1 Mental illness is consistently associated with deprivation, low income, unemployment, poor education, poorer physical health and increased health-risk behaviour. Mental illness has not only a human and social cost, but also an economic one, with wider costs in England amounting to £105 billion a year.

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