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SUMMARY:Prevention of mental illness in the adolescent years - Professor I
 an Goodyer\, OBE\,MD\, FRCPsych\, FMedSci\, Professor of Child &amp\; Adol
 escent Psychiatry\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20191115T180000Z
DTEND:20191115T191000Z
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CONTACT:Ali Mashhadi
DESCRIPTION:The adolescent years are associated with the highest incident 
 risk rate of major mental illnesses over the lifecourse. Approximately 70%
 -80% of all mental illnesses will begin their natural history before 25 ye
 ars of age. Within the UK 21% (14 million) of the population are under 18 
 years and around 1.25 million will have some form of mental health problem
 : but they will vary from mild (many)  to highly severe (some). Approximat
 ely 500\,000 however will have been clinically depressed before their 21st
  birthday of whom one third will experience recurrent mental illness into 
 adult life. Productivity losses in adult life are 23 times higher than cos
 ts to NHS. Sickness costs (‘absenteeism’) in the UK economy are approx
 imately £8.4bn annually. Furthermore\, there are an estimated £15.1bn lo
 st in reduced productivity at workplace (‘presenteeism’). These are th
 e background factors that indicate the pressing needs for a public mental 
 health policy that puts prevention at the heart of its programme. This lec
 ture outlines the types of prevention programmes (primordial\, primary\, s
 econdary and tertiary) currently being actively pursued in the UK and else
 where to reduce incident onset\, recurrence and chronicity of mental illne
 sses respectively that can emerge and persist through into adult life. \n\
 nThis event is jointly organised by the Wolfson College Science Society an
 d the Wolfson College Society of Emeritus Fellows.
LOCATION:Wolfson College - The Lee Hall
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