Businesses and governments should allocate more money to understanding and
alleviating depression, researchers told the World Economic Forum in Davos,
Switzerland, last week. In any six-month period, 7 per cent of the world’s
population suffers from serious depression with staggering economic and social
costs, Raymond DePaulo of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore said.
“Investment now would bring real returns in the future, as it did when we really
focused on cancer research 30 years ago.”
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