Depression: Serviceuse and Employment

impacts on disability, mortality and health care systems has never been in doubt. Disability-adjusted life-years, standardised mortality rates and health care costs have all been used to aggregate these impacts – see, for example, the report by the World Health Organization (2001). However, what is frequently overlooked is a number of often substantial economic consequences, sometimes referred to as the indirect costs. These costs fall to the social care, education, housing, criminal justice and social security systems, and often they are especially felt by individuals with mental health problems and their families.