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Mental health promotion and mental illness prevention: the economic case
- Editors:
- KNAPP Martin, MCDAID David, PARSONAGE Michael, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 43p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Mental ill health is the largest single cause of disability in the UK, contributing almost 23% of the overall burden of disease compared to about 16% each for cancer and cardiovascular disease. The economic and social costs of mental health problems in England are estimated at around £105 billion each year. This report presents the key findings of a project on the economic case for mental health promotion and prevention, based on a detailed analysis of costs and benefits for fifteen different interventions. The interventions were: health visiting and reducing post-natal depression; parenting interventions for children with persistent conduct disorders; school-based social and emotional learning programmes to prevent conduct problems in childhood; school-based interventions to reduce bullying; early detection for psychosis; early intervention for psychosis; screening and brief intervention in primary care for alcohol misuse; workplace screening for depression and anxiety disorders; promoting well-being in the workplace; debt and mental health; population-level suicide awareness training and intervention; bridge safety measures for suicide prevention; collaborative care for depression in individuals with Type II diabetes; tackling medically unexplained symptoms; and befriending of older adults. The estimated economic pay-offs per £ of expenditure from each of these fifteen models is presented.