GLOBAL HEALTH: LSHTM Audio News Special: Global Mental Health, September 15th, 2007

Published: Sept. 16, 2007, 11:02 a.m.

b"Audio News Special: Global Mental Health\\n\\nMental Health is a major part of the global disease burden, but more needs to be done to make sure support, treatments and policies are in place. That's according to a series of articles, published in The Lancet, which have looked at this very topic. The audio news team went to meet some of the authors:\\nGraham Thornicroft, of Kings College London, who talked about the size of the problem;\\nVikram Patel, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who discussed measures to take and choices that need to be made;\\nand Shekhar Saxena, from the World Health Organisation, who has calculated the costs involved."