SaveMental disorders remain significant global burden on healthThe prevalence of mental disorders has been on the rise and remains a significant leading cause of disease burden worldwide, according to a 30-year global systematic analysis published in The Lancet Psychiatry. “Mental disorders are increasingly recognized as leading causes of disease burden. To meet the mental health needs of individual countries in a way that prioritizes transformation of health systems, in-depth understanding of the scale of the impact of these disorders is essential, including their distribution in the population, the health burden imposed, and their broader health consequences,” Alize Ferrari, PhD, of the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research at the University of Queensland, and colleagues wrote. Further, they included information analyzed from several databases regarding prevalence, incidence, remission, duration, severity and excess mortality for individual mental disorders. “The findings of GBD 2019 emphasize the large proportion of the global disease burden attributable to mental disorders and the global disparities in that burden,” Ferrari and colleagues wrote.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 18, 2022 21:45 UTC