The Burdens of Mental Disorders

Jordi Alonso, M.D., Ph.D., is Director, Program of Epidemiology and Public Health, Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques, and Professor of Public Health, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain. Somnath Chatterji, M.D., is a Scientist in the Department of Health Statistics and Information Systems, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Yanling He, M.D., is Director, Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.

Acknowledgements; Part I. Introduction: 1. Burdens of mental disorders: the approach of the World Mental Health (WMH) surveys; 2. Methods of the World Mental Health surveys; Part II. Mental Disorders and Personal Disadvantages: 3. Parent psychopathology and offspring mental disorders; 4. Associations between mental disorders and early termination of education; 5. Mental disorders, marriage and divorce; 6. Premarital mental disorders and risk for marital violence; 7. Early-onset mental disorders and their links to chronic physical conditions in adulthood; Part III. Mental Disorders and Productivity Losses: 8. Association between serious mental illness and personal earnings; 9. Early-onset mental disorders and adult household income; 10. Family burden associated with mental and physical disorders; Part IV. Disability and Perceived Health Associated with Common Mental and Physical Disorders: 11. Days totally out of role associated with common mental and physical disorders; 12. Partial disability associated with common mental and physical disorders; 13. Disorder-specific disability and treatment of common mental and physical disorders; 14. Disability associated with common mental and physical disorders; 15. Perceived health associated with common mental and physical disorders; 16. Decomposing the total associations of common mental and physical disorders with perceived health; Part V. Implications and Future Directions: 17. The burden of mental disorders in the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study and the World Mental Health surveys: similarities, differences and implications for mental health research; 18. The burdens of mental disorders: implications for policy; 19. Conclusions and future directions; Appendices; Index.