Sydsvenskan (Sweden):
Debate Post: "Why is mental ill health and not poverty the main reason for a bad life?"
26 November 2017
Richard Layard and his co-workers wanted to know how much money the British government has to allocate to reduce mental illness, physical ill health, unemployment and poverty. They concluded that the cheapest is to deal with mental ill health; about eighteen times more cost-effective than an effort to reduce poverty, in terms of reducing suffering and increasing life's happiness.