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“Today, some 450 million people suffer from a mental or behavioural disorder…mental health and mental disorders are not regarded with anything like the same importance as physical health. Instead they have been largely ignored or neglected” (WHO 2001, p. 3). The neglect of the mentally ill with simultaneous violation of their human and civil rights culminated in the killing of some 200000 of these people between 1939 and 1945 by the National Socialist regime in Germany. But in other countries and at other times, too, mentally ill people have been left behind in terms of social privileges and resources, as shown by the death rates for selected German mental hospitals (Table 1) and a British county mental hospital during World War I (Table 2).
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Häfner, H. (2004). The mental health care system on its way to integration in general health care. In: Kirch, W. (eds) Public Health in Europe. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18826-8_17
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