Mental Illness Comprises 14% of Global Disease Burden

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According to The Lancet "Series on Global				non-communicable diseases that complicate
Mental Health", neuropsychiatric disorders				treatment and can lead to poor outcomes,
make up 14% of the global disease burden.				including a higher risk of death. More
Because mental illness is so debilitating, it				research needs to be done to better
contributes more to the global burden than				understand the link between mental and
heart disease, stroke, or cancer.				physical health and the potential for mental
Neuropsychiatric disorders include				health intervention to improve physical well
depression, psychoses like anxiety, bipolar				being.
disorder, schizophrenia, eating disorders,
Alzheimer's disease, in addition to substance				Very little is known about the impact of
and alcohol use disorders.				mental disorders on physical illness in low
				and middle income countries. Eighty percent
Professor Martin Prince of the London King's				of non-communicable disease deaths occur in
College Institute of Psychiatry claims that				these countries and mental healthcare budgets
mental illness can increase the likelihood of				are too low to measure the impact of
developing and amplifying a wide range of				neuropsychiatric disorders. Professor Prince
physical illnesses. He explains that				claims that "Mental health awareness needs to
neuropsychiatric disorders are commonly				be integrated into all elements of health and
accompanied by communicable and				social policy...