Journal article
The burden of mental disorders in the eastern mediterranean region, 1990-2013
R Charara, M Forouzanfar, M Naghavi, M Moradi-Lakeh, A Afshin, T Vos, F Daoud, H Wang, CE Bcheraoui, I Khalil, RR Hamadeh, A Khosravi, V Rahimi-Movaghar, Y Khader, N Al-Hamad, CM Obermeyer, A Rafay, R Asghar, SM Rana, A Shaheen Show all
Plos One | PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE | Published : 2017
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Abstract
The Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) is witnessing an increase in chronic disorders, including mental illness. With ongoing unrest, this is expected to rise. This is the first study to quantify the burden of mental disorders in the EMR. We used data from the Global Burden of Disease study (GBD) 2013. DALYs (disability-adjusted life years) allow assessment of both premature mortality (years of life lost-YLLs) and nonfatal outcomes (years lived with disability-YLDs). DALYs are computed by adding YLLs and YLDs for each age-sex-country group. In 2013, mental disorders contributed to 5.6% of the total disease burden in the EMR (1894 DALYS/100,000 population): 2519 DALYS/100,000 (2590/100,000 ma..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The funding source was the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The funding organization did not play a role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript and only provided financial support in the form of authors' salaries and/or research materials. We would like to declare the following commercial affiliations: Dr. Anwar Rafay is employed by Contech International health consultants. Syed Danish Ali is employed by SIR Consultants.