Time for change. Mental illness in public health.
Forty million persons in the nation aged 15 to 54 years experience a mental disorder. Despite widespread prevalence, an enormous burden of disability, and the staggering cost to society, the mentally ill remain segregated from traditional medicine and largely overlooked by public health. Now is the time for change.
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D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000191:economics; D011634:Public Health; D014481:United States