Excess mortality, mental illness and global burden of disease

Excess mortality, mental illness and global burden of disease.

Excess mortality from mental, neurological and substance use disorders in the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

AIMS Mortality-associated burden of disease estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2010 (GBD 2010) may erroneously lead to the interpretation that premature death in people with mental, neurological and substance use disorders (MNSDs) is inconsequential when evidence shows that people with MNSDs experience a significant reduction in life expectancy. We explore differences between cause-spe...

The epidemiology of excess mortality in people with mental illness.

OBJECTIVE to investigate the burden of excess mortality among people with mental illness in developed countries, how it is distributed, and whether it has changed over time. METHOD we conducted a systematic search of MEDLINE, restricting our attention to peer-reviewed studies and reviews published in English relating to mortality and mental illness. Because of the large number of studies that...

Estimating the true global burden of mental illness.

We argue that the global burden of mental illness is underestimated and examine the reasons for under-estimation to identify five main causes: overlap between psychiatric and neurological disorders; the grouping of suicide and self-harm as a separate category; conflation of all chronic pain syndromes with musculoskeletal disorders; exclusion of personality disorders from disease burden calculat...

Psychiatric Epidemiology: Reducing the Global Burden of Mental Illness

a 2008 The Authors This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Vol. 168, No. 9 DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwn298 Advance Access publication Oc...