New WHO prevalence estimates of mental disorders in conflict settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis

The Lancet

Volumn 394, Issue 10194, 2019, Pages 240-248

  Charlson, Fiona ^a,b,c   van Ommeren, Mark ^d   Flaxman, Abraham ^c   Cornett, Joseph ^a   Whiteford, Harvey ^a,b,c   Saxena, Shekhar ^e  

^a Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FUNDING; GLOBAL DISEASE BURDEN; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WAR; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; META ANALYSIS; WARFARE;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WARFARE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 85069479900     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30934-1     Document Type: Article

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