Food, by contrast, is a small and diminishing fraction of the total burden.
Although mental ill-health accounts for 28% of the total burden of disease, it gets just 13% of the NHS's budget.
It shows that, by 2020, men will have borne just 14% of the total burden of welfare cuts, compared with 86% for women.
Vaccine-preventable diseases accounted for only 4% of the total burden, but immunisation swallowed 30% of the budget.No one wanted to scale back the vaccination programme, of course.
Alcohol was the leading cause of burden of disease for Australians under the age of 45 in 2011; alcohol-use disorders were responsible for 1.5% of the total burden of disease.
Mental health problems cost the country an estimated £100bn each year through lost working days, benefits, lost tax revenue and cost of treatment, and account for 23% of the total burden of disease in the UK.
Only 13% of the NHS budget is currently committed to mental health services, despite the fact that mental ill-health accounts for 28% of the total burden of disease.
And if we look at low-income countries and just focus on those countries, mental disorders account for about close to 9% of the total burden of disease; again very substantial.
(The European Union shoulders 45% of the total burden because it is the host).
The most victimised came to suffer fewer crimes, but these crimes represented a somewhat higher proportion of the total burden than before.
