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. 2016 Sep;17(9):1245-9.
doi: 10.15252/embr.201642951. Epub 2016 Aug 4.

The economic costs of mental disorders: Do our societies react appropriately to the burden of mental disorders?

Sebastian Trautmann  1 , Jürgen Rehm  2 , Hans-Ulrich Wittchen  1
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The economic costs of mental disorders: Do our societies react appropriately to the burden of mental disorders?

Sebastian Trautmann et al. EMBO Rep. 2016 Sep.

Abstract

Mental disorders affect a huge number of people and have a major economic impact due to treatment costs and lost productivity. Society and politics need to acknowledge this huge toll in order to better support the healthcare systems that deal with these disorders.

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Figure 1. Different approaches used to estimate economic costs of mental disorders.
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Figure 2. Economic costs of mental disorders in trillion US$ using three different approaches: direct and indirect costs (A), impact on economic growth (B), and value of statistical life (C)
Based on data from 6.
Figure 3
Figure 3. Medical conditions for which resources should not be cut in case of general cutbacks within the healthcare budget (in %, multiple answers were possible)
Based on data from 9.
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