Global Burden of Depressive Disorders in the Year 2000

Overview

Journal Br J Psychiatry

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2004 May 5

PMID 15123501

Citations 481

Authors

T B Ustun

J L Ayuso-Mateos

S Chatterji

C Mathers

C J L Murray

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Abstract

Background: The initial Global Burden of Disease study found that depression was the fourth leading cause of disease burden, accounting for 3.7% of total disability adjusted life years (DALYs) in the world in 1990.

Aims: To present the new estimates of depression burden for the year 2000.

Method: DALYs for depressive disorders in each world region were calculated, based on new estimates of mortality, prevalence, incidence, average age at onset, duration and disability severity.

Results: Depression is the fourth leading cause of disease burden, accounting for 4.4% of total DALYs in the year 2000, and it causes the largest amount of non-fatal burden, accounting for almost 12% of all total years lived with disability worldwide.

Conclusions: These data on the burden of depression worldwide represent a major public health problem that affects patients and society.

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