Stanislav Kostyuchenko

TL;DR: Data is presented on the prevalence, impairment and demographic correlates of depression from 18 high and low- to middle-income countries in the World Mental Health Survey Initiative to investigate the combination of demographic risk factors that are most strongly associated with MDE in the specific countries included in the WMH.

TL;DR: In this article, the first 17 countries participating in the World Health Organization's (WHO's) World Mental Health Survey Initiative (WMH) survey were described, and the data from these countries were compared with the data collected from the other countries.

TL;DR: The weakening associations between MDE and physical conditions with increasing age argue against the suggestion that the low estimated prevalence of MDE among the elderly is due to increased confounding with physical disorders.

TL;DR: Most people with suicide ideation, plans and attempts receive no treatment, especially in low-income countries, while those who had actually attempted suicide were more likely to receive care.

TL;DR: The results suggest the "gateway" pattern at least partially reflects unmeasured common causes rather than causal effects of specific drugs on subsequent use of others, which implies that successful efforts to prevent use of specific "Gateway" drugs may not in themselves lead to major reductions in the use of later drugs.