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The 10 by 10 goal: by working together we can increase mental healthcare consumers' life expectancy by 10 years in the next 10 years.(PERSPECTIVES)

Publication: Behavioral Healthcare
Publication Date: 01-JAN-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Early in the spring of 2006, Craig Colton and I reported findings on premature mortality of public mental healthcare consumers. Our findings were both startling and disturbing: Public mental healthcare consumers die 25 years younger than other Americans. Male consumers are likely to die by by...

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...age 52; female consumers age 58. These numbers are comparable to life expectancies in the United States more than 100 years ago, before the era of modern medicine!

Our findings have fostered concern and mobilization across the mental healthcare field. The National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) issued a landmark policy paper on actions that state mental health agencies can take to address this crisis. Central to these...

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