"There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business."
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Vikram Patel is a distinguished Indian psychiatrist and global mental health advocate, renowned for his pioneering work in transforming mental health care, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Born on November 7, 1968, Patel's groundbreaking research has emphasized the importance of community-based approaches to mental health, reshaping how societies understand and address mental illness. As a co-founder of the Centre for Global Mental Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Patel's legacy is rooted in his unwavering commitment to making mental health care accessible to all.
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"I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking."
Vikram Patel"The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger."
Vikram Patel"Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers."
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