The need to integrate mental and physical health care is indisputable. Health-care professionals know that people with severe mental illness are dying up to 20 years earlier than the general population partly due to physical ill health,^1–3 and they now know that this mortality gap is widening despite current efforts.⁴ Meanwhile, a high proportion of people with long-term physical conditions continue to be diagnosed with mental illness, around 30%,⁵ and as many as one in three primary care consultations can concern medically unexplained symptoms.

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整合身心保健：身心方法

整合精神和身体保健的需求是无可争辩的。卫生保健专业人员知道，重度精神疾病的人比一般人群早死了20年，部分原因是身体疾病^1–3。他们现在知道，尽管目前正在努力，但这种死亡率差距正在扩大。⁴与此同时，继续被诊断出患有精神疾病的人中，仍有很大一部分人被诊断出患有精神疾病，其中约30％，⁵以及多达三分之一的初级保健会诊中涉及医学上无法解释的症状。