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Table 8 Undertreatment (% of mentally ill people in any form of treatment)

From: Mental health: the new frontier for labour economics

 

% of all ill people who are in treatment

% of people on disability benefits who are in treatment

Adults

  UK

25

50

  US

28

46

EUROPE

25

 

Children

  UK

25

 
  1. Sources: UK: ONS Surveys; US: OECD (2011) p87; EUROPE: Lepine et al (1997).