Disability and treatment of specific mental and physical disorders across the world.
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BACKGROUND Advocates of expanded mental health treatment assert that mental disorders are as disabling as physical disorders, but little evidence supports this assertion. AIMS To establish the disability and treatment of specific mental and physical disorders in high-income and low- and middle-income countries. METHOD Community epidemiological surveys were administered in 15 countries through the World Health Organization World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative. RESULTS Respondents in both high-income and low- and middle-income countries attributed higher disability to mental disorders than to the commonly occurring physical disorders included in the surveys. This pattern held for all disorders and also for treated disorders. Disaggregation showed that the higher disability of mental than physical disorders was limited to disability in social and personal role functioning, whereas disability in productive role functioning was generally comparable for mental and physical disorders. CONCLUSIONS Despite often higher disability, mental disorders are under-treated compared with physical disorders in both high-income and in low- and middle-income countries.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science
دوره 192 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008