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Chris Underhill, BasicNeeds and the 2015 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting

January 29, 2015  /  David Castro  /  Source

Chris Underhill, founder of BasicNeeds, wrote a captivating summary of the stigmatization, lack of treatment and societal consequences surrounding depression for Medium.com preceding the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting for 2015. The information provided in the article dovetails seamlessly into the meeting's theme of "The New Global Context"; did you know that the macro-economic effect of non-communicable diseases (including depression) represent "a cumulative loss of $47 trillion over the next two decades"? The mental health component of this category of diseases alone accounts for $16.1 trillion. Find out more about the World Economic Forum meeting that took place in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland here.

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