Open access Editorial: Hidden costs of mental illness

Martin Knapp (2003)

Please note: this is a legacy publication from CPEC (formely PSSRU at LSE).

British Journal of Psychiatry 183 6 477-478

https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.183.6.477

Abstract

That mental health problems have major impacts on disability, mortality and health care systems has never been in doubt. Disability-adjusted life-years, standardized mortality rates and health care costs have all been used to aggregate these impacts –