精神疾病患者接受的医疗质量的差异是他们比没有精神疾病的人寿命短的原因之一。即使在世界上资源最丰富的国家,这一预期寿命差距也高达 20 岁。在世界发展中国家,这种差距更大。
(The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.)