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Mental health inequalities: measuring what counts: partnership seminar, 16 March 2009, Royal Institute of British Architects
- Author:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 44p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A World Health Organisation report has posited that mental health is the lynchpin between economic and social inequalities, and poor mental health is a significant cause of wider problems, such as unemployment, low educational standards, low income, reduced standard of living and poor physical health. This paper is based on a seminar organised jointly by Sainsbury Centre and the Department of Health in 2009, arguing that public services do not routinely collect data on mental health inequalities and that the information they do collect is not used to its full potential. It calls for better information to be collected and used to measure inequalities in mental health and the life chances of people with mental health problems.