Global burden of depressive disorders in the year 2000
Global Forum for Health Research · World Health Organization · +1 more institution
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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.
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Keywords
- Burden of disease
- Depression (economics)
- Disease burden
- Medicine
- Incidence (geometry)
- Public health
- Years of potential life lost
- Disease
UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Good health and well-being
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