The 2009 World Health Organization report on global health risks identifies hypertension,
smoking, raised glucose, physical inactivity, obesity and dyslipidaemia, in that order, as …

The culture of smoking by patients and staff within mental health systems of care has a long
and entrenched history. Cigarettes have been used as currency between patients and as a …

BackgroundPeople with schizophrenia have significantly raised mortality but we do not
know how these mortality patterns in the UK have changed since the 1990s. AimsTo …

There is considerable evidence that various psychiatric conditions can be prevented through
the implementation of effective evidence-based interventions. Since a large proportion of …

This brief report sets out data from the national 2007 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey
relating to smoking rates in the English general population. Rates are examined by whether …

People with psychotic disorders have reduced life expectancy compared with the general
population. This difference is primarily due to increased prevalence of cardiovascular …

The life expectancy of patients with schizophrenia is reduced by between 15 and 25 years.
Those patients dying of natural causes die of the same diseases as in the general …

The first three versions of this document (2012, 2013 and 2015) were written for the Joint
Commissioning Panel for Mental Health (JCPMH) which was a collaboration co-chaired by …

Smoking is the largest single cause of preventable illness in the UK. Those with mental
health problems smoke significantly more and are therefore at greater risk. The new Health …

It is widely acknowledged that there is interplay between physical and mental health, with
causality in both directions. A common theme across countries is the uncertainty …