Nominally, this year should be a good year for mental health. On 13 and 14 April, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Wo

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问题    Nominally, this year should be a good year for mental health. On 13 and 14 April, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank will hold an unprecedented joint conference to discuss mental health as both a global disease and an economic problem.    It is a welcome gesture after many slights. Mental illness was left out of the United Nations’ influential high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) five years ago. Almost begrudgingly, the UN gave mental health a brief mention in the entry for NCDs in its Sustainable Development Goals last year. 【F1】As well as reducing deaths from NCDs such as heart disease by one-third, it said, the world should also "promote mental health and well-being". 【F2】The UN failed to recognize that in terms of impact, mental disorders are at least as harmful as those better-recognized and better-funded diseases.
   Many developed countries scarcely give mental illness more than lip service. 【F3】Underlying much of the neglect is the persistent bias, conscious or not, towards believing that many mental-health conditions are a moral failing rather than the result of complex biology, despite ovenvhelming evidence for the latter. For poor countries tormented by infectious and childhood diseases, it can be easier to confine people with severe mental disorders than to try to treat them. And treatment is hard to find the world over: globally, there are only nine mental-health providers for every 100,000 people, and some countries have only one or two providers. 【F4】Even in developed countries, people find it difficult to consider depression as a condition to be combated with the same clarity of purpose as heart disease. This is worsened by the failure to develop drugs for depression that are as clear-cut and effective as statins.
   The annual Mental Illness Awareness Week in October promotes mental health, as do many organizations devoted to erasing the stigma and bias that harm patients and inhibit politicians. But so much more is needed in terms of improved treatments and access to care.
   Finance ministers at the meeting next week should recognize the positive economic returns of investing in this direction. The UN, the WHO, the World Bank and governments should be expected to contribute something concrete to this pressing issue. 【F5】The summit’s attendees should come away with plans for creating specific development targets, and mechanisms for funding research, ensuring that treatment is available in low-income countries, and holding nations responsible for giving mental illnesses as prominent a place in health care as other NCDs.
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答案峰会的参加者应该为设立具体的发展目标制定计划,为注资科研建立机制,确保在低收入国家有可行的治疗方案,使各国承担起责任,让精神疾病在医疗领域中具有与其它非传染病一样的重要地位。

解析 ①本句是一个复合句,包含一个宾语从句。②句子的主干为主谓宾结构,and连接两个并列的宾语plans以及mechanisms;两个宾语后分别接介词短语for creating...targets以及for funding research,均为目的状语,意为“为设立具体的发展目标……”和“为注资科研……”。③ensuring以及holding均为现在分词作伴随状语;ensuring后接一个宾语从句,说明确保的内容,in low-income countries作地点状语。④hold sb. responsible for...意为“使某人对……负责任”,此处意为“使国家承担起……责任”,for giving...NCDs为目的状语,for后接的内容为国家需承担的具体责任;目的状语包含一个比较结构as…as…,意为“和……一样”,比较的主体是mental illnesses和other NCDs;in health care在此目的状语中作地点状语。
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