Authors
Til Wykes, Josep Maria Haro, Stefano R Belli, Carla Obradors-Tarragó, Celso Arango, José Luis Ayuso-Mateos, István Bitter, Matthias Brunn, Karine Chevreul, Jacques Demotes-Mainard, Iman Elfeddali, Sara Evans-Lacko, Andrea Fiorillo, Anna K Forsman, Jean-Baptiste Hazo, Rebecca Kuepper, Susanne Knappe, Marion Leboyer, Shôn W Lewis, Donald Linszen, Mario Luciano, Mario Maj, David McDaid, Marta Miret, Szilvia Papp, A-La Park, Gunter Schumann, Graham Thornicroft, Christina van der Feltz-Cornelis, Jim van Os, Kristian Wahlbeck, Tom Walker-Tilley, Hans-Ulrich Wittchen
Publication date
2015/11/1
Source
The Lancet Psychiatry
Volume
2
Issue
11
Pages
1036-1042
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Mental and brain disorders represent the greatest health burden to Europe—not only for directly affected individuals, but also for their caregivers and the wider society. They incur substantial economic costs through direct (and indirect) health-care and welfare spending, and via productivity losses, all of which substantially affect European development. Funding for research to mitigate these effects lags far behind the cost of mental and brain disorders to society. Here, we describe a comprehensive, coordinated mental health research agenda for Europe and worldwide. This agenda was based on systematic reviews of published work and consensus decision making by multidisciplinary scientific experts and affected stakeholders (more than 1000 in total): individuals with mental health problems and their families, health-care workers, policy makers, and funders. We generated six priorities that will, over the next 5–10 …
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