Rethink’s ‏@VictoriBleazard on #LethalDiscrimination of the mentally ill. #MentalHealth

“This week, Rethink Mental Illness, a UK mental health charity, released Lethal Discrimination, a report that spent no time getting to its bottom line: people with mental health problems are being let down by the medical system. They are not offered the services given to other patients, and this has resulted in a rather telling statistic—a third of the 100 000 avoidable deaths in the UK are of people with a mental health problem. On average, people with serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia die 20 years younger than the rest of the population.” cont’d….. http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)62045-0/fulltext?rss=yes The Rethink Report: http://www.rethink.org/media/810988/Rethink%20Mental%20Illness%20-%20Lethal%20Discrimination.pdf Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Tagged: mental illnesses, Rethink Mental Illness
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