National mental health policy and Australia’s ‘Deaths of despair’

Tarun Bastiampillai; Jeffrey C.L. Looi; Stephen Allison; Sven K. Delaney; Steve Kisely

doi:10.1177/0004867421998778

National mental health policy and Australia’s ‘Deaths of despair’

Tarun Bastiampillai, Jeffrey C.L. Looi, Stephen Allison, Sven K. Delaney, Steve Kisely

College of Medicine and Public Health

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First coined in the United States, ‘Deaths of despair’ refer to mortality due to suicides, alcohol-related mortality and drug overdoses (Case and Deaton, 2017). Deaths from these combined conditions are approximately double the suicide rate alone and may represent a more comprehensive picture of adverse outcomes from psychological morbidity (Figure 1). In contrast to the declining rates of all-cause mortality in high-income countries, those from ‘Deaths of despair’ have remained steady or even increased, particularly in the United States...

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	517-518
Number of pages	2
Journal	Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
Volume	55
Issue number	5
Early online date	15 Mar 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0004867421998778
Publication status	Published - May 2021

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health policy
mental health

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