The call for action on treatment and prevention of mental disorders1 needs to be matched by
a call to integrate mental health into public-health action, otherwise it will send incomplete …

Comment 1496 www. thelancet. com Vol 392 October 27, 2018 a role in adult mental
disorders. 7, 8 As the Commission shows, this knowledge creates unique opportunities for …

4 years ago, The Lancet published a Series of articles highlighting the global health crisis
due to an astonishingly large treatment gap: up to nine of ten people with a mental health …

The southeast Asia subregion (ASEAN: countries listed in the table) varies widely in
populations, income, progress as reflected in the human development index, 1 and in …

Comment www. thelancet. com Vol 387 June 4, 2016 2275 and support. Two new platforms
were launched to bring organisations together under the banner of mental health: mhNOW …

Mental Health Priorities: Investing in the Evidence, will be published in England this week. 1
This report, similarly to others before it, brings together the best evidence about mental …

Comment interventions. 4 The UN Convention recognises that all people have rights to both
life and liberty and to physical and mental integrity. However, it neither expressly bans nor …

Discusses mental health care in Ghana. State psychiatric care, which does not match up to
internationally agreed legal standards on health care and human rights, and is plagued by …

Growing international evidence shows that mental ill health and poverty interact in a
negative cycle in low-income and middle-income countries. However, little is known about …

About 14% of the global burden of disease has been attributed to neuropsychiatric
disorders, mostly due to the chronically disabling nature of depression and other common …