| According to Statistics Canada and the Canadian Mental Health Association:
1. One out of every eight Canadians can expect to be hospitalized for a mental illness at least once during his or her lifetime,
2. One and a half million people living in Ontario have some form of mental illness; 38,000 are severely disabled by schizophrenia, affective disorders and other mental illnesses (4.1 per 1,000 population).
The Graham Report, 1988 |