Mental health conditions and substance use disorders (SUDs) have a morbidity burden that is 31.8% higher than that of the top four noncommunicable diseases combined. Scaling mental health treatment globally could reduce this burden by 40% by 2050, a McKinsey & Company report found. While noncommunicable diseases, like cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes, kidney diseases and cancers, have a higher mortality rate, mental health conditions cause more years lived with poor health than these major diseases do.
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