The WHO World Mental Health Surveys: Global Perspectives on the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders

by Edited by Ronald C. Kessler , T. Bedirhan Ustun

• ISBN13: 9780521294881
• ISBN10: 0521294886
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book was originally published in 2008. Mental disorders have profound social, cultural, and economic effects throughout the world. Although most psychiatry and psychology texts provide some basic data on the prevalence and treatment of mental disorders, no previous book ever presented such data with the breadth or depth of the current volume. Reported here are the first results of the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative, a highly ambitious series of cross-national psychiatric epidemiological surveys. The general population surveys in the WMH series span 17 countries in all parts of the world. In many of these countries the WMH surveys provide the first community epidemiological data ever available on mental disorders in the population. The detailed information on lifetime prevalence, age of onset, course, correlates, and treatment of mental disorders in this volume provides mental health professionals and healthcare policy planners with an unprecedented reference on the cross-national descriptive epidemiology of mental disorders.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Methods

Introduction

Sample designs and sampling procedures

Implementation of the World Mental Health Surveys

The World Health Organization composite international diagnostic interview

Translation procedures and translation assessment in the World Mental Health Survey Initiative

Concordance of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview Version 3.0 (CIDI 3.0) with standardized clinical assessments in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

Country Specific Chapters: WHO Regional Office for the Americas (AMRO)

Mental disorders in Colombia: results from the World Mental Health Survey

The Mexican National Comorbidity Survey (M-NCS): overview and results

The National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R): cornerstone in improving mental health and mental health care in the United States; WHO Regional Office for Africa (AFRO)

Mental disorders among adult Nigerians: risks, prevalence, and treatment

The South African Stress and Health Survey (SASH): a foundation for improving mental health care in South Africa; WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO)

Mental disorders and war in Lebanon; WHO Regional Office for Europe (EURO)

Mental health in Belgium: current situation and future perspectives

The prevalence of mental disorders and services use in France: results from a national survey 2001-2

Prevalence and treatment of mental disorders in Germany: results from the European Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders (ESEMeD) survey

The prevalence of mental disorders and service use in Israel: results from the national health survey 2003-4

The prevalence of mental disorders and service use in Italy: results from the national health survey 2001-3

Mental disorders and service use in the Netherlands: results from the European Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders (ESEMeD)

The epidemiology of mental disorders in the general population of Spain

The state of mental health and alcoholism in Ukraine; WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WPRO)

Mental disorders and service use in China

Twelve-month prevalence, severity and treatment of common mental disorders in communities in Japan: the World Mental Health Japan 2003-4 Survey

Te Rau Hinengaro: the New Zealand Mental Health Survey

Cross-National Comparisons

Lifetime prevalence and age of onset distributions of mental disorders in the World Mental Health Survey Initiative

Delay and failure in treatment seeking after first onset of mental disorders in the World Mental Health Survey Initiative

Prevalence and severity of mental disorders in the World Mental Health Survey Initiative

Recent treatment of mental disorders in the World Mental Health Survey Initiative

Conclusions

Overview and future directions for the World Mental Health Survey Initiative

Index

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