Has the burden of depression been overestimated?

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 443-448

  Kruijshaar, Michelle E ^a   Hoeymans, Nancy ^b   Spijker, Jan ^c   Stouthard, Marlies É A ^d   Essink Bot, Marie Louise ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Comparative study; Cost of illness; Depressive disorder, Major; Disability evaluation; Disabled persons statistics; Netherlands

Indexed keywords

COST; DISABILITY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MENTAL HEALTH;

ALGORITHM; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISABILITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; NETHERLANDS; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PAIN; PATIENT MOBILITY; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CARE; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VISUAL DISORDER;

COST OF ILLNESS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

BENELUX; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 20944444140     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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