Mental health 2020: challenges and opportunities
A Jablensky · Psychiatrische Praxis · 2011 · Heft 04
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Assen V. Jablensky According to the World Health Organization, mental disorders are among the top 10 causes of the global „burden of disease“ and their share in the prevalence of disability is likely to increase by 2020. Emotional and developmental disorders, psychoses, substance use disorders and neurodegenerative brain diseases have their onset at different stages of the life cycle, but jointly they will contribute towards the end of the decade over 40% of the total burden of disability in the industrialized countries. The developing countries, or the „emerging economies“, are rapidly catching up with this tre…