London Summit, Lancet Commission Report Call For More Attention To Mental Health
NPR: Report: World Support For Mental Health Care Is ‘Pitifully Small’
“It’s a major milestone in the fight to recognize mental health and mental illness as global issues: a comprehensive report from the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health, three years in the making, released this past week at a London summit with royals Prince William and Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, in attendance to show their support for the cause. But it was not a celebratory event. Threaded throughout the 45-page report is a lament that the world is ignoring millions of suffering people…” (Silberner, 10/15).
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