A "public health approach to" ..... mental health
last week I did a short stint at an event oriented around transforming community mental health. I had 10 minutes. It was rapid fire and I oriented my short slot around setting out "a public health approach" to mental health. The speaking notes are here please steal in any way you want these are short form speaking notes. There are no joined up sentences! 1 why should we care about mental health Miserable lives ………. Critical part of healthy life expectancy (the healthy bit and the life expectancy bit – esp wrt to early mortality of those with serious mental illness) NHS and social care demand. 18% of need - prob a gross under estimate (13% of funding), Economic productivity. Constraints on econ growth. 2 lets be clear on what we are talking about on "transforming mental health" Outcome Ser...