Hostname: page-component-77f85d65b8-pkds5 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-04-20T10:08:38.610Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The growing public health importance of common mental disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2011

Ricardo Araya
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Summary

Non-communicable diseases are growing rapidly and mental problems represent a large proportion of this group. Most mental health burden is to be found in the community and at primary health care. There are large disparities in prevalence rates between and within countries. Latin American countries have consistently shown higher prevalence rates than most other countries in the world.

Riassunto

Le malattie non trasmissibili sono in rapida crescita ed i problemi mentali rappresentano una larga percentuale all'interno di questo gruppo. La maggior parte del carico dovuto alle malattie mentali grava sulla medicina territoriale e generale. Ci sono grosse disparità nei tassi di prevalenza tra i vari paesi e al loro interno. I paesi latino americani hanno mostrato in maniera omogenea tassi di prevalenza più alti degli altri paesi.

Keywords

mental healthepidemiologyLatin America

Information

Type
Invited Papers
Information
Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , December 2000 , pp. 241 - 248
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2000

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

Araya, R. (1999). The management of depression in Primary Health Care. Current Opinion in Psychiatry 12, 103–107.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Araya, R. (2000a). Common mental disorders and detection by primary care physicians. Santiago, Chile (PhD Thesis). University of London: London.Google Scholar
Araya, R. (2000b). Desordenes Mentales en la Practica Medica General. Editorial BBM: Santiago, Chile.Google Scholar
Araya, R. & Lewis, G. (1995). Is there a culturally determined bias when using the General Health Questionnaire? Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 30, 20–25.Google Scholar
Araya, R., Wynn, R., Leonard, R. & Lewis, G. (1994). Psychiatric morbidity, detection by physicians, and frequency of consultation in primary care. British Journal of Psychiatry 165, 530–533.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Araya, R., Lewis, G., Rojas, G. & Mann, A. (in press). Patient knows best: Causal attributions and the detection of common mental disorders. British Medical Journal.Google Scholar
Araya, R.Rojas, G., Fritsch, R., Acuna, J. & Lewis, G. (submitted for publication). Santiago mental disorder survey: prevalence and risk factors.Google Scholar
Broadhead, W.E., Blazer, D., George, L. & Tse, C. (1990). Depression, disability days and days lost from work. Journal of the American Medical Association 264, 2524–2528.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Canino, G.J., Bird, H.R. & Shrout, P.E. (1987) The prevalence of specific psychiatric disorders in Puerto Rico. Archives of General Psychiatry 44, 727–735.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Cheng, T.A. (1988). A community study of minor psychiatric morbidity in Taiwan. Psychological Medicine 18, 953–968.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Desjarlais, R., Eisenberg, L., Byron, G. & Kleinman, A. (1995). World Mental Health: Problems and Priorities in Low Income Countries. Oxford University Press: New York.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Eaton, W.W., Neufeld, K., Chen, L.S. & Cai, G. (2000). A comparison of self-reported and clinical diagnostic interviews for depression: Diagnostic Interview Schedule and Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry in the Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area follow-up. Archives of General Psychiatry 57, 217–222.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Goldberg, D. & Huxley, P. (1992). Common Mental Disorders: a Biopsychosocial Approach. Routledge: London.Google Scholar
Jenkins, R., Lewis, G., Bebbington, P., Brugha, T., Farrell, M., Gill, B. & Meltzer, H. (1997). The National Psychiatric Morbidity Surveys of Great Britain: Initial findings from the Household Survey. Psychological Medicine 27, 775–790.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Kessler, R.C., McGonagle, K.A., Zhao, S., Nelson, C.B., Hughes, M., Eshleman, S., Wittchen, H.U. & Kendler, K.S. (1994). Lifetime and 12-month prevalence of DSM-III-R psychiatric disorders in the United States. Archives of General Psychiatry 51, 8–19.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Lewis, G. & Araya, R. (1995). Is the General Health Questionnaire (12 item) a culturally biased measure of psychiatric disorder? Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 30: 20–25.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Lewis, G., Pelosi, A.J., Araya, R. & Dunn, G. (1992). Measuring psychiatric disorder in the community: a standardised assessment for use by lay interviewers. Psychological Medicine 22, 465–486.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Lin, E., Chan, B. & Goering, P. (1998). Variations in mental health needs and fee-for-service reimbursement for physicians in Ontario. Psychiatric Services 49, 1445–1451.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Mari, J.J. (1987). Psychiatric morbidity in three primary medical care clinics in the city of Sao Paulo: issues on the mental health of the poor. Social Psychiatry 22, 129–138.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mari, J.J.. Iacoponi, E., Williams, P., Simoes, O. & Silva, J.B. (1987). Detection of psychiatric morbidity in the primary medical care setting in Brazil. Revista Saude Publica Sao Paulo 21(6), 501–507.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Marks, J.N., Goldberg, D.P. & Hillier, V.F. (1979). Determinants of the ability of general practitioners to detect psychiatric illness. Psychological Medicine 9, 337–353.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Medina-Mora, M.E., Padilla, G.P., Mas, C.C., Ezban, B.M., Caraveo, A.J., Campillo, S.C. & Corona, J. (1985). Prevalencia de trastomos mentales y factores de riesgo en una poblaciòn de pr-ctica médica general. Acta Psiquiatrica y Psicològica de America Lalina 31, 53–61.Google Scholar
Salud, Ministerio de (1989). Politicas de Salud Mental del Ministerio. Ministerio de Salud: Santiago, Chile.Google Scholar
Salud, Ministerio de (1999). Las Enfermedades Mentales en Chile: Magnitud y Consecuencias. Ministerio de Salud: Santiago, Chile.Google Scholar
Murphy, J.M., Monson, R.R., Laird, N.M., Sobol, A.M. & Leighton, A.H. (2000). A comparison of diagnostic interviews for depression in the Stirling County Study: challenges for psychiatric epidemiology. Archives of General Psychiatry 57, 230–236.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Murray, C.J.L. & Lopez, A.D. (1994). Global Comparative Assessments in the Health Sector. World Health Organization: Geneva.Google Scholar
Murray, C.J.L. & Lopez, A.D. (1997). Alternative projections of mortality and disability by cause 1900-2020: Global Burden of Disease Study. Lancet 349, 1498–1504.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Patel, V. (1998). Culture and Common Mental Disorders in Sub-Saharan Africa. Psychology Press: London.Google Scholar
Penayo, U., Kullgren, G. & Caldera, T. (1990). Mental disorders among primary health care patients in Nicaragua. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 82, 82–85.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Schulberg, H.C., Block, M.R., Madonia, M.J., Scott, C.P., Rodriguez, E., Imber, S.D., Perel, J., Lave, J., Houck, P.R. & Coulehan, J.L. (1996). Treating major depression in primary care practice: Eight-month clinical outcomes. Archives of General Psychiatry 53: 913–919.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Shepherd, M.S., Cooper, B., Brown, A.C. & Kalton, G. (1966). Psychiatric Disorders in General Practice. Oxford University Press: Oxford.Google Scholar
Üstün, B. (1999). The global burden of mental disorders. American Journal of Public Health 89(9), 1315–1318.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Üstün, B. & Sartorius, N. (1995). Mental Illness in General Health Care: An International Study. John Wiley: London.Google Scholar
Wilmink, F.W., Ormel, J.. Giel, R., Krol, B., Lindeboom, E.G., van der Meer, K. & Soeteman, J.H. (1989). General Practitioners' characteristics and the assessment of psychiatric illness. Journal of Psychiatric Research 23(2), 135–149.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
World Bank Development Report (1993). Investing in Health. Oxford University Press: New York.Google Scholar