The WHO World Mental Health Surveys
Global Perspectives on the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders
- Edited by: Ronald C. Kessler, Harvard Medical School
- Edited by: T. Bedirhan Ustun, World Health Organization, Geneva
- Ronald C. Kessler, T. Bedirhan Ustun, Steven G. Heeringa, J. Elisabeth Wells, Frost Hubbard, Zeina Mneimneh, Wai Tat Chiu, Nancy Sampson, Patricia Berglund, Beth-Ellen Pennell, Zeina Mneimneh, Ashley Bowers, Stephanie Chardoul, Maria Carmen Viana, Karl Dinkelmann, Nancy Gebler, Silvia Florescu, Yanling He, Yueqin Huang, Toma Tomov, Gemma Vilagut, Janet Harkness, Ana Villar, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, Ipek Bilgen, Josep Maria Haro, Saena Arbabzadeh-Bouchez, Traolach S. Brugha, Giovanni de Girolamo, Margaret E. Guyer, Robert Jin, Fausto Mazzi, Blana Reneses, Gemma Vilagut Saiz, Nancy A. Sampson, Jose Posada-Villa, Marcela Rodriguez, Patricia Duque, Alexandra Garzon, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, Joshua Breslau, Ma Elena Medina-Mora, Guilherme Borges, Carmen Lara, Corina Benjet, Clara Fleiz, G. Estela Rojas, Joaquin Zambrano, Jorge Villatoro, Jeronimo Blanco, Olga Demler, Meyer Glantz, Michael Lane, Robert Jin, Kathleen Ries Merikangas, Matthew Nock, Mark Olfson, Harold A. Pincus, Ellen E. Walters, Philip S. Wang, Kenneth B. Wells, Allan A. Herman, David Williams, Dan J. Stein, Soraya Seedat, Steven G. Heeringa, Hashim Moomal, Elie G. Karam, Zeina N. Mneimneh, Aimee N. Karam, John A. Fayyad, Soumana C. Nasser, Hani Dimassi, Mariana M. Salamoun, Ronny Bruffaerts, Anke Bonnewyn, Koen Demyttenaere, Isabelle Gasquet, Vivianne Kovess-Masfety, Laurence Negre, Jordi Alonso, Daphna Levinson, Yaacov Lerner, Nelly Zilber, Itzhak Levav, Pierluigi Morosini, Antonella Gigantesco, Sara Delmonte, Ron de Graaf, Johan Ormel, Margreet ten Have, Huibert Burger, Martine Buist-Bouwman, J. M. Haro, J. Alonso, A. Pinto-Meza, G. Vilagut, M. Codony, C. Palacin, M. Martinez, A. Domingo, J. V. Torres, J. Almansa, A. Fernandez, J. Autonell, Evelyn J. Bromet, Semyon F. Gluzman, Nathan L. Tintle, Volodymyr I. Paniotto, Charles P.M. Webb, Victoria Zakhozha, Johan M. Havenaar, Zinoviy Gutkovich, Stanislav Kostyuchenko, Joseph E. Schwartz, Yueqin Huang, Zhaorui Liu, Mingyuan Zhang, Yucun Shen, Adley Tsang, Yanling He, Sing Lee, Norito Kawakami, Yutaka Ono, Yoshibumi Nakane, Yosikazu Nakamura, Hisateru Tachimori, Noboru Iwata, Hidenori Uda, Hideyuki Nakane, Makoto Watanabe, Yoichi Naganuma, Toshiaki A. Furukawa, Yukihiro Hata, Masayo Kobayashi, Yuko Miyake, Tadeshi Takeshima, Takehiko Kikkawa, Mark A. Oakley Browne, , Kate M. Scott, Matthias C. Angermeyer, James C. Anthony, Somnath Chatterji, Ayelet Ruscio, Cheuk Him, Adley Tsang, Maria Petukhova, Alan M. Zaslavsky
- ISBN:9780521884198
- Publication date:November 2008
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.
