Burden of Depressive Disorders by Country, Sex, Age, and Year: Findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

J Ferrari, Alize; Charlson, Fiona; Norman, Rosana; B. Patten, Scott; Freedman, Greg; J L Murray, Christopher; Vos, Theo; Whiteford, Harvey

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001547

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Burden of Depressive Disorders by Country, Sex, Age, and Year: Findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

Published in PLoS Medicine • Nov 5, 2013

Authors:

Alize J Ferrari

Fiona Charlson

Rosana Norman

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Depressive disorders were a leading cause of burden in the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 1990 and 2000 studies. Here, we analyze the burden of depressive disorders in GBD 2010 and present severity proportions, burden by country, region, age, sex, and year, as well as burden of depressiv...

Subject

Major depressive disorder

Disease burden

Medicine

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