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Social sustainability and mental health: a threat to evidence-based practice?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Daniel Maughan  and
Mark Burgess
Daniel Maughan
Affiliation:
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Department of Psychiatry, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, email drdanielmaughan@gmail.com
Mark Burgess
Affiliation:
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
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The availability and use of mental health treatments are influenced by many different factors. Prominent among these are scientific evidence, cost, ethics and politics. However, the social sustainability of treatments can also have a considerable influence on their use.

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BJPsych International , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , February 2016 , pp. 4 - 5
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