Current opinion in psychiatry
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Curr Opin Psychiatry · Jul 2013
ReviewHow did we arrive at burden of disease estimates for mental and illicit drug use disorders in the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010?
The Global Burden of Disease study 2010 (GBD 2010) estimated regional and global burden of 291 diseases and 67 risk factors. Here, we provide an overview of the methodological approach taken to this work, as well as the challenges and limitations encountered in deriving the burden of mental and drug use disorders. ⋯ GBD 2010 findings demonstrated the major public health importance of mental and drug use disorders. The methodology used to estimate burden was more sophisticated than previous GBD studies, with some restrictions required in order to achieve defensible numerical measures of burden for mental and drug use disorders.