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- Title
Common mental disorders and disability across cultures.
- Authors
Ormel, Johan; VonKorff, Michael
- Abstract
Examines the impact of common mental illness on functional disability and the cross-cultural consistency of this relationship. Screening of patients in primary health care facilities in fourteen countries; Measures of outcome; Consistent association between psychopathology and increased disability; Dose-response relationship between severity of mental illness and disability.
- Subjects
MENTAL illness; CROSS-cultural studies
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 1994, Vol 272, Issue 22, p1741
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.1994.03520220035028