CNN: Why people with mental illness may face poorer physical health and early death

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Around the world, people with mental illness die up to 20 years earlier than the general population, and a comprehensive new report suggests that governments and health care providers must do more to stop the deaths.

"The disparities in physical health outcomes for people with mental illness are currently regarded as a human rights scandal," said Joseph Firth, a research fellow at the University of Manchester and chairman of the Lancet Psychiatry Commission, which published the research.