Year: 2013
Type: editorial
Abstract: People with serious mental illness (SMI) have greatly increasing morbidity and mortality from physical illness than the general population.This results in a 25 to 30 year shorter life expectancy with cardiovascular disease being the leading cause of death 1 .It has been suggested that current policy, services and health promotion actions are ineffective in targeting physical illness in this population.
Source: PubMed
Language: English
Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2284481831