The Globe and Mail (Canada):
Mental illness: A depressing failure of public policy
15 August 2014
The lost productivity and direct health expenses have an economic cost; in a recent analysis for the Mental Health Commission of Canada, the value was pegged at $50-billion a year. Labour economist Richard Layard argues that such estimates are inherently conservative: Mental illness casts a long shadow, over our jails and emergency departments, with total costs of more than 8 per cent of a country's GDP.
This article was published by The Globe and Mail (Canada) on August 15, 2014Link to article here
Related Publications
Thrive: the Power of Evidence Based Psychological Therapies Richard Layard, David M Clark, Penguin, July 2014
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Related Links
Richard Layard webpage
David Clark webpage
Wellbeing Programme webpage