Grand challenges in global mental health

By Pamela Y. Collins, Vikram Patel, Sarah S. Joestl, D. March, Thomas R. Insel, A. Daar. Nature, 2011

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A consortium of researchers, advocates and clinicians announces here research priorities for improving the lives of people with mental illness around the world, and calls for urgent action and investment.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Social Psychology

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Human–AI collaboration enables more empathic conversations in text-based peer-to-peer mental health support (2022, background): “Overall, mental illness and related behavioural health problems contribute 13% to the global burden of disease, more than both cardiovascular diseases and cancer 59 .”
The social determinants of mental health and disorder: evidence, prevention and recommendations (2024, background): “The dearth of action on primary prevention in mental health has been recast as one of the grand challenges in global mental health 324 , and very likely hinders progress in reducing the incidence, preva lence and burden of mental disorders that afflict society 319 .”
The Link between Depression and Chronic Pain: Neural Mechanisms in the Brain (2017, background): “Additionally, as one of the most common and disabling mental disorders, depression has been reported to be the third leading contributor to the global disease burden [6, 7].”
COGNITIVE DEFICITS AND FUNCTIONAL OUTCOMES IN MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER: DETERMINANTS, SUBSTRATES, AND TREATMENT INTERVENTIONS (2013, background): “Results from the Global Alliance and Chronic Disease Report extend and replicate the observation that MDD is associated with the highest level of disability-adjusted life years among all mental, neurological, and substance use disorders.[36] A significant component of the overall disability and cost”
Globalising Mental Health or Pathologising the Global South? Mapping the Ethics, Theory and Practice of Global Mental Health (2014, background): “One of these referred to the fact that Nature had refused to publish a letter critical of the ideas presented in the article by Collins et al. (2011) that appeared in Nature, and thereby raising the possible political nature of the MGMH itself (Fernando, 2011).”
The relationships between school climate and adolescent mental health and wellbeing: A systematic literature review (2018, positive): “…processes associated with many mental health problems, and the high proportion of lifetime mental health issues that ﬁ rst appear during adolescence, suggest that early prevention, intervention, and care are important (Collins et al., 2011; Kim-Cohen et al., 2003; World Health Organization, 2014).”
European guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of insomnia (2017, neutral): “According to WHO data, insomnia ranked 11th in the list of most important brain disorders with respect to global burden (Collins et al., 2011).”
Rapid and Longer-Term Antidepressant Effects of Repeated Ketamine Infusions in Treatment-Resistant Major Depression (2012, neutral): “The major findings of this study are that (1) the antidepressant effect of ketamine is evident very early in the course of treatment, (2) ketamine exerts a broad-spectrum effect on individual symptoms of depression, and (3) rapid response to the first infusion is highly predictive of a sustained res”
Depression among Users of Social Networking Sites (SNSs): The Role of SNS Addiction and Increased Usage (2017, positive): “Studying depression resulting from SNS use is relevant because of the high prevalence rate of depression, with more than 350 million people affected worldwide of all ages [26,27], and research suggests excessive SNS use is associated with depressive symptoms [8].”
Early Life Circumstance and Adult Mental Health (2019, background): “Our focus on psychological well-being is related to a growing literature on thedeterminants of personality andnoncognitive skill formation (Heckman 2007; Cunha, Heckman, and Schennach 2010).”
Effect of environmental conditions on perceived psychological restorativeness of coastal parks (2011, neutral): “The World Health Organization’s (WHO) landmark assessment of the global burden of disease highlighted the growing impacts of mental health disorders on societies worldwide, with neuropsychiatric conditions accounting for approximately 13% of all Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs), and accounting”