The World Health Organization has long recommended that conditions like depression or anxiety are identified and treated early because they burden the healthcare system, patients and their families.
When we looked at the medical literature published and indexed by the US National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health in the last 10 years, we found that not much has changed. The unmet need for primary mental health care – identified by the World Health Organization a decade ago – remains unmet.
To read more about our review of literature, visit the publisher’s website: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17523281.2014.939221#.U9I1pONkSAg
Citation:
The prevalence of common mental and substance use disorders in general practice: a literature review and discussion paper
Jan Klimas, Anna Neary, Claire McNicholas, David Meagher, Walter Cullen
Mental Health and Substance Use.