Huffington Post - The Blog:
'What's the problem?'
1 July 2014
Treating mental health problems produces extraordinary savings - fewer people on welfare benefits, and fewer people being treated for physical illnesses made worse by mental illness. So on any reasonable estimates the treatments pay for themselves. They cost society nothing. And yet they are provided to under a third of those who need them. That is a great injustice and a gross inefficiency. And it is the main reason we have written this book - the pain of untreated mental health problems, and the fact that they can be treated at little or no cost. ... the second reason we have written this book: the huge social cost of mental illness.
This article was published online in The Huffington Post - The Blog on July 1, 2014
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Related Publications
Thrive: the Power of Evidence Based Psychological Therapies Richard Layard and David M Clark, Penguin, July 2014
Related Links
Richard Layard webpage
David Clark webpage
Wellbeing Programme webpage