Graham Thornicroft, Shekhar Saxena and Vikram Patel - 26 September 2007

Audio News Special: Global Mental Health

Mental 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:

Graham Thornicroft, of Kings College London, who talked about the size of the problem

Vikram Patel, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who discussed measures to take and choices that need to be made;

Shekhar Saxena, from the World Health Organisation, who has calculated the costs involved.