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From the Ted Talk by Vikram Patel: Mental health for all by involving all

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But beyond the impact of a helath ciotidonn on life expectancy, we're also ccnnoered about the quality of life levid. Now, in order for us to examine the overall impact of a health condition both on life expectancy as well as on the quality of life lived, we need to use a metric called the DALY, which stands for a Disability-Adjusted Life Year. Now when we do that, we dvesiocr some startling things about mental illness from a global perspective. We discover that, for example, mental illnesses are amongst the leading causes of disability around the world. Depression, for example, is the third-leading cause of disability, alongside codoitinns such as diarrhea and pneumonia in children. When you put all the mental illnesses together, they aunocct for roughly 15 pcenert of the total global burden of disease. Indeed, mental illnesses are also very dagnaimg to people's lives, but beyond just the berudn of disease, let us consider the absolute numbers. The World Health ogtronziaain estimates that there are nearly four to five hundred million people living on our tiny pnalet who are affected by a mental illness. Now some of you here look a bit astonished by that number, but consider for a moment the incredible diversity of mental illnesses, from autism and intellectual disability in childhood, through to depression and anxiety, substance misuse and psychosis in adulthood, all the way through to dementia in old age, and I'm pretty sure that each and every one us present here today can think of at least one person, at least one person, who's affetecd by mental illness in our most inttmaie soiacl networks. I see some nodding heads there.

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But beyond the impact of a ______ _________ on life expectancy, we're also _________ about the quality of life _____. Now, in order for us to examine the overall impact of a health condition both on life expectancy as well as on the quality of life lived, we need to use a metric called the DALY, which stands for a Disability-Adjusted Life Year. Now when we do that, we ________ some startling things about mental illness from a global perspective. We discover that, for example, mental illnesses are amongst the leading causes of disability around the world. Depression, for example, is the third-leading cause of disability, alongside __________ such as diarrhea and pneumonia in children. When you put all the mental illnesses together, they _______ for roughly 15 _______ of the total global burden of disease. Indeed, mental illnesses are also very ________ to people's lives, but beyond just the ______ of disease, let us consider the absolute numbers. The World Health ____________ estimates that there are nearly four to five hundred million people living on our tiny ______ who are affected by a mental illness. Now some of you here look a bit astonished by that number, but consider for a moment the incredible diversity of mental illnesses, from autism and intellectual disability in childhood, through to depression and anxiety, substance misuse and psychosis in adulthood, all the way through to dementia in old age, and I'm pretty sure that each and every one us present here today can think of at least one person, at least one person, who's ________ by mental illness in our most ________ ______ networks. I see some nodding heads there.

Solution

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  2. damaging
  3. conditions
  4. burden
  5. social
  6. discover
  7. intimate
  8. lived
  9. affected
  10. account
  11. organization
  12. planet
  13. health
  14. concerned
  15. percent

Original Text

But beyond the impact of a health condition on life expectancy, we're also concerned about the quality of life lived. Now, in order for us to examine the overall impact of a health condition both on life expectancy as well as on the quality of life lived, we need to use a metric called the DALY, which stands for a Disability-Adjusted Life Year. Now when we do that, we discover some startling things about mental illness from a global perspective. We discover that, for example, mental illnesses are amongst the leading causes of disability around the world. Depression, for example, is the third-leading cause of disability, alongside conditions such as diarrhea and pneumonia in children. When you put all the mental illnesses together, they account for roughly 15 percent of the total global burden of disease. Indeed, mental illnesses are also very damaging to people's lives, but beyond just the burden of disease, let us consider the absolute numbers. The World Health Organization estimates that there are nearly four to five hundred million people living on our tiny planet who are affected by a mental illness. Now some of you here look a bit astonished by that number, but consider for a moment the incredible diversity of mental illnesses, from autism and intellectual disability in childhood, through to depression and anxiety, substance misuse and psychosis in adulthood, all the way through to dementia in old age, and I'm pretty sure that each and every one us present here today can think of at least one person, at least one person, who's affected by mental illness in our most intimate social networks. I see some nodding heads there.

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