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OUP blog (Oxford University Press's Academic Insights for the Thinking World):
The classification of mental illness

15 May 2013

According to the UK Centre for Economic Performance, mental illness accounts for nearly half of all ill health in the under 65s. But this begs the question: what is mental illness? How can we judge whether our thoughts and feelings are healthy or harmful? What criteria should we use?

This article was published on the OUP blog (Oxford University Press) on May 15, 2013
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Related publications
How Mental Health Loses Out in the NHS: A report by the Centre for Economic Performance's Mental Health Policy Group, June 2012

Related links
Richard Layard webpage
Wellbeing Programme webpage
Mental Health Policy Group webpage

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