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

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

• ISBN13: 9780521884198
• ISBN10: 0521884195
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-08-18
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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 has 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, the largest coordinated series of cross-national psychiatric epidemiological surveys ever undertaken. 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 state-of-the-art reference on the cross-national descriptive epidemiology of mental disorders.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Contributors	p. xiii
Methods
Introduction	p. 3
Sample Designs and Sampling Procedures	p. 14
Implementation of the World Mental Health Surveys	p. 33
The World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview	p. 58
Translation Procedures and Translation Assessment in the World Mental Health Survey Initiative	p. 91
Concordance of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview Version 3.0 (CIDI 3.0) with Standardized Clinical Assessments in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys	p. 114
Country-Specific Chapters
WHO: Regional Office for the Americas (AMRO)	p. 131
Mental Disorders in Colombia: Results from the World Mental Health Survey	p. 131
The Mexican National Comorbidity Survey (M-NCS): Overview and Results	p. 144
The National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R): Cornerstone in Improving Mental Health and Mental Health Care in the United States	p. 165
WHO: Regional Office for Africa (AFRO)	p. 211
Mental Disorders among Adult Nigerians: Risks, Prevalence, and Treatment	p. 211
The South African Stress and Health Study (SASH): A Foundation for Improving Mental Health Care in South Africa	p. 238
WHO: Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO)	p. 265
Mental Disorders and War in Lebanon	p. 265
WHO: Regional Office for Europe (EURO)	p. 279
Mental Health in Belgium: Current Situation and Future Perspectives	p. 279
The Prevalence of Mental Disorders and Service Use in France: Results from a National Survey 2001-2002	p. 305
Prevalence and Treatment of Mental Disorders in Germany: Results from the European Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders (ESEMeD) Survey	p. 331
The Prevalence of Mental Disorders and Service Use in Israel: Results from the National Health Survey, 2003-2004	p. 346
The Prevalence of Mental Disorders and Service Use in Italy: Results from the National Health Survey 2001-2003	p. 364
Mental Disorders and Service Use in the Netherlands: Results from the European Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders (ESEMeD)	p. 388
The Epidemiology of Mental Disorders in the General Population of Spain	p. 406
The State of Mental Health and Alcoholism in Ukraine	p. 431
WHO: Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WPRO)	p. 447
Mental Disorders and Service Use in China	p. 447
Twelve-month Prevalence, Severity, and Treatment of Common Mental Disorders in Communities in Japan: The World Mental Health Japan 2002-2004 Survey	p. 474
Te Rau Hinengaro: The New Zealand Mental Health Survey	p. 486
Cross-National Comparisons
Lifetime Prevalence and Age of Onset Distributions of Mental Disorders in the World Mental Health Survey Initiative	p. 511
Delay and Failure in Treatment Seeking after First Onset of Mental Disorders in the World Mental Health Survey Initiative	p. 522
Prevalence and Severity of Mental Disorders in the World Mental Health Survey Initiative	p. 534
Recent Treatment of Mental Disorders in the World Mental Health Survey Initiative	p. 541
Conclusions
Overview and Future Directions for the World Mental Health Survey Initiative	p. 555
Index	p. 569
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