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Financial Times (of London), the world‘s #1 international business paper, yesterday wrote about the need for depression treatment in its highly-regarded Lex column. The world’s business firms understand the global prevalence of depression as a mental health condition needing treatment and that their employees need access to effective depression treatment in the place where they all go for care: primary care. NHMH commends the Financial Times for its putting a deserved focus on depression for the business and employer community world-wide.

March 19, 2019

“Depression Drugs: Battling the Blues”
Financial Times of London March 2019 Article

Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development Issues New Report

The Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development is a comprehensive synthesis of knowledge on global mental health, designed to catalyse worldwide action. It builds on the 2007 and 2011 The Lancet series on global mental health that helped make mental health care a greater priority worldwide.

However, it remains a grim reality that the vast majority of people affected by mental health problems globally still do not receive adequate care. The burden of these problems in terms of their direct health consequences, is very large and increasing: but their impacts on social and economic well-being, on family functioning, and on diverse sectors of society is colossal and almost incalculable.  The Commission’s latest Report was issued October 10, 2018 in London.

Mental Health Care is a Global Problem! When it comes to mental health, EVERY country is developing!

The Man Trying To Universalize Mental Healthcare

Most people in the developing world have no access to mental healthcare. By training locals to do basic interventions, Dr. Vikram Patel is making a big difference.

World’s Leading Global Media Publish NHMH Letter

In the August 22, 2018 edition of the Financial Times, the world’s #1 global newspaper, print and online, the Editor published a letter from NHMH regarding the FT’s recent reporting on mental health in the workplace.  The Financial Times has a worldwide readership of over one million people.

Dear Editor,

Thank you for your piece in the August 20, 2017 FT edition on Working Life – Mental Health (“I Felt Numb But Did Not Share My Feelings with Anybody”).  What we in NHMH – No Health without Mental Health most appreciated was the writer’s emphasis on hope, recovery, and the existence of effective treatments (medications, therapy, etc) for mental disorders out there.  The key is accessing those treatments.  It is through these person-to-person “contacts” of people sharing their own stories, that we open the public to accepting that mental health conditions are a part of the overall human condition from time to time, and when they crop up, part of our total health needs.  It is not only acceptable to seek mental health care, but a normal part of taking good health care of ourselves.

That said, the fields of medicine and behavioral health still have a long way to go to ensure that effective mental health services are widely available in all medical settings (GP/primary care clinics, general hospitals, specialty medical settings, post-acute care facilities, etc) … i.e. the places where people go for their care, and not just in specialty psychiatric offices and clinics where access and affordability are limited for most, and where most people, data shows, feel too stigmatized to go for help.

(signed) NHMH – No Health without Mental Health

NHMH Letter To Editor Published in Financial Times, Leading International News Daily/Online, on April 10, 2018

Dear Editor,

Might FT Health focus future special reports on the vital topic of mental health treatment in primary care?  Specifically, innovative new ways that         effective mental health care services are coming into the medical settings (esp primary care, but also emergency rooms, inpatient hospitals, skilled nursing facilities etc).

Over the past 15 years, WHO has consistently identified depression as the leading cause of global disability in rich, mid-level and low income       countries. Untreated mental health conditions are not only a huge unnecessary financial burden on society causing lost business productivity, criminal justice system costs, they also importantly impede the improvement of physical conditions … thereby significantly increasing total health care costs.  Untreated mental health leads to increased medical costs.

Across national boundaries, patients with behavioral conditions do not go to specialty mental health settings due to the pervasive social stigma surrounding mental illness.  They do go to primary care, to a GP or PCP they know and trust and seek coordinated medical-behavioral care.  But those very primary care doctors have not been trained in treatment of mental illness nor in medication management for such illnesses.  They only refer to mental health specialists, and patients won’t go to referral or wait time to see them is too long. The nub of the issue now is to make effective mental health care available in primary care by bringing both the medical and mental health fields together to create new inter-disciplinary team-based care models, and to develop new consultative arrangements (e.g. hub-and-spoke, store-and-forward) of indirect psychiatric consultative cooperation and care, that allow mental health specialists to assist the GP/PCP in their primary care clinics.

NHMH Collaborator Receives UK Knighthood

Dr. Graham Thornicroft a psychiatrist at King’s College London has received a Knighthood on the Queen’s Birthday Honors List for 2017 awarded June 19, 2017.  This is a well-deserved recognition and for a physician and researcher who has made outstanding contributions to the field of behavioral health research and clinical care services not only in the United Kingdom but globally.  NHMH has had the honor to work with Dr. Thornicroft for many years and we extend our warmest congratulations!

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/newsevents/news/newsrecords/2017/06-June/Queens-Birthday-Honours-2017.aspx?TaxonomyKey=0/1/2/17

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