Why people with mental illness may face poorer physical health and early death

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Around the world, people with mental illness die up to 20 years earlier than the general population, and a new report suggests that governments and health care providers must do more to stop the deaths

"The disparities in physical health outcomes for people with mental illness are currently regarded as a human rights scandal," said Joseph Firth, a research fellow at the University of Manchester and chairman of the Lancet Psychiatry Commission, which published the research.

But health care systems are working to offer better care, Firth said."More and more world health authorities and national health bodies are genuinely doing their best to try to address these health issues," he said, both to help patients and cut costs."We do need to start addressing the mind and the body together," said Firth."It sounds like a very old-age saying of 'healthy body, healthy mind.

 

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No wonder Democrats live such short lives..

Actually in Nigeria, they live longer

If that’s true, why is Trump still here?

This is my life.

Sounds about right to me

GOP doesn't want to move and inch on gun control. They yell mental illness it's not the guns. Ok, you've shutdown enough abortion clinics, where is your energy for mental illness?

Maybe you should’ve found a way to parlay your Richard Spencer segment into this. But hey...who gives a damn about integrity as long as you can generate a little social consciousness in between ratings?

sry our govt too busy arguing over a tweet atm..then they will have yet ANOTHER vacation or recess and then it will be more arguing over phantoms and never actually doing a damn thing for AMERICANS.

Guess that’s why your ratings are so low CNN.......

WHY?

only 20? i'm already tired of living smh

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