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A re-evaluation of the yield from national surveys of mental health

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Ronald C. Kessler  and
T. Bedirhan Üstün
Ronald C. Kessler
Affiliation:
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, email kessler@hcp.med.harvard.edu
T. Bedirhan Üstün
Affiliation:
Classifications, World Health Organization
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Abstract

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Having spent a considerable amount of time thinking about the uses of large-scale descriptive psychiatric epidemiological needs assessment surveys in our capacity as co-directors of the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative, we agree with many of the conclusions of Henderson and Andrews. Most importantly, we agree:

  1. ∘ that among the most important benefits of these surveys have been their political value in documenting high prevalence and high disability

  2. ∘ that the time has come to expand the focus to study causes.

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Information
International Psychiatry , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 2008 , pp. 18 - 20
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Copyright
Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2008

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