Undertreatment of people with major depressive disorder in 21 countries

By G. Thornicroft, S. Chatterji, S. Evans-Lacko, M. Gruber, N. Sampson, S. Aguilar-Gaxiola, A. Al-Hamzawi, Jordi Alonso, L. Andrade, G. Borges and 17 more. British Journal of Psychiatry, 2017

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Pharmacology, Social Psychology

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In Applied Psychology

1. Vikram Patel

In Social Psychology

1. Yueqin Huang
2. E. Heim
3. Pamela Y. Collins
4. Vikram Patel
5. Dan J Stein
6. G. Thornicroft
7. Brandon A. Kohrt

Citations in the corpus

• Cultural Adaptation of Scalable Psychological Interventions: A New Conceptual Framework (2019, background): “The treatment gap for common mental disorders is around 60% in high-income countries, 65% in upper-middle income countries, and over 80% in lower-middle income countries (Alonso et al., 2018; Thornicroft et al., 2017).”
• The Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable development. (2018, background): “For example, global studies 37,180,181 done by the World Mental Health Survey consortium have shown that only 41% of people with anxiety, 57% of people with depression, and 39% of people with substance use disorders report that they have a mental health difficulty.”
• Mental health in elite athletes: International Olympic Committee consensus statement (2019) (2019, neutral): “A core challenge in developing this consensus statement was that the evidence comes predominantly from high income countries, which have more health services compared with low and middle income countries 41–43 where many athletes reside.”