The association between neighborhood deprivation and mortality in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder - a nationwide follow-up study.

This study shows that neighborhood deprivation is an important risk factor for all-cause mortality and most cause-specific mortalities among patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. These findings could serve as aid to policymakers when allocating healthcare resources and to clinicians who encounter patients with these conditions in deprived neighborhoods.