The Lancet
Jun 04, 2016 Volume 387 Number 10035 p2263-2350
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current
Editorial
World Humanitarian Summit: next steps crucial
The Lancet
Summary
Ban Ki-moon’s final flagship initiative for his tenure as UN Secretary-General, the World Humanitarian Summit, was held in Istanbul, Turkey, last week (May 23–24). The meeting, the first of its kind, was marred in controversy before it started, with Médecins Sans Frontières boycotting the event because it did not believe that it would address the weaknesses in humanitarian action and emergency response. Other non-governmental organisations (NGOs) were sceptical too. Were they right?

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Comment
Time for mental health to come out of the shadows
Arthur Kleinman, Georgia Lockwood Estrin, Shamaila Usmani, Dan Chisholm, Patricio V Marquez, Tim G Evans, Shekhar Saxena
Summary
Mental disorders, such as depression, anxiety, and substance use disorders, impose an enormous global disease burden1 that leads to premature mortality and affects functioning and quality of life. If left untreated, mental disorders can result in worse treatment adherence and outcomes for commonly co-occurring diseases, such as tuberculosis, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.2 Yet parity between mental and physical health conditions remains a distant ideal. Poor mental health also impacts on economic development through lost production and consumption opportunities at both the individual and societal level.