Mains Question:
Question: “Mental Illness creates enormous social and economic costs” Comment (150 words)
Approach
- Introduction- brief about mental health and worsening situation
- Impact on the entire social fabric, particularly through economic costs
- loss of income due to unemployment
- expenses for social supports, incarceration
- a range of indirect costs
- Challenges
- Required measures
- improve the affordability of mental health treatment
- expand access to behavioral health providers
- invest in prevention, and increase the take-up of mental health services
- Conclude accordingly