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Jose Posada-Villa
Researcher at Pontifical Xavierian University
Publications - 145
Citations - 38033
Jose Posada-Villa is an academic researcher from Pontifical Xavierian University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Comorbidity. The author has an hindex of 70, co-authored 135 publications receiving 30897 citations. Previous affiliations of Jose Posada-Villa include El Bosque University & Pontifical University of the Holy Cross.
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Prevalence, severity, and unmet need for treatment of mental disorders in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys.
Koen Demyttenaere,Ronny Bruffaerts,Jose Posada-Villa,Isabelle Gasquet,Kovess,J P Lépine,Matthias C. Angermeyer,Sebastian Bernert,de Girolamo G,Pierluigi Morosini,G Polidori,Takehiko Kikkawa,Norito Kawakami,Y. Ono,Tadashi Takeshima,Hidenori Uda,Elie G. Karam,John Fayyad,A. N. Karam,Zeina Mneimneh,María Elena Medina-Mora,Guilherme Borges,Carmen Lara,de Graaf R,Johan Ormel,Oye Gureje,Shen Y,Y. Huang,Zhang M,Jordi Alonso,Josep Maria Haro,Gemma Vilagut,Evelyn J. Bromet,Semyon Gluzman,C. P. M. Webb,Ronald C. Kessler,Kathleen R. Merikangas,James C. Anthony,Von Korff Mr,Philip S. Wang,Traolach S. Brugha,Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola,Sing Lee,Steven G. Heeringa,B. E. Pennell,Alan M. Zaslavsky,T. B. Üstün,Somnath Chatterji +47 more
TL;DR: Reallocation of treatment resources could substantially decrease the problem of unmet need for treatment of mental disorders among serious cases and careful consideration needs to be given to the value of treating some mild cases, especially those at risk for progressing to more serious disorders.
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Cross-National Prevalence and Risk Factors for Suicidal Ideation, Plans, and Attempts
Matthew K. Nock,Guilherme Borges,Evelyn J. Bromet,Jordi Alonso,Matthias C. Angermeyer,Annette L. Beautrais,Ronny Bruffaerts,Wai Tat Chiu,Giovanni de Girolamo,Semyon Gluzman,Ron de Graaf,Oye Gureje,Josep Maria Haro,Yueqin Huang,Elie G. Karam,Ronald C. Kessler,Jean Pierre Lepine,Daphna Levinson,María Elena Medina-Mora,Yutaka Ono,Jose Posada-Villa,David R. Williams +21 more
TL;DR: There is cross-national variability in the prevalence of suicidal behaviours, but strong consistency in the characteristics and risk factors for these behaviours.
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Prevalence and correlates of bipolar spectrum disorder in the world mental health survey initiative.
Kathleen R. Merikangas,Robert Jin,Jian-Ping He,Ronald C. Kessler,Sing Lee,Nancy A. Sampson,Maria Carmen Viana,Laura Helena Andrade,Chiyi Hu,Elie G. Karam,Maria Ladea,María Elena Medina-Mora,Yutaka Ono,Jose Posada-Villa,Rajesh Sagar,J. Elisabeth Wells,Zahari Zarkov +16 more
TL;DR: The uniform increases in clinical correlates, suicidal behavior, and comorbidity across each diagnostic category provide evidence for the validity of the concept of BPS.
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Childhood adversities and adult psychopathology in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys
Ronald C. Kessler,Katie A. McLaughlin,Jennifer Greif Green,Michael J. Gruber,Nancy A. Sampson,Alan M. Zaslavsky,Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola,Ali Al-Hamzawi,Jordi Alonso,Matthias C. Angermeyer,Corina Benjet,Evelyn J. Bromet,Somnath Chatterji,Giovanni de Girolamo,Koen Demyttenaere,John Fayyad,Silvia Florescu,Gilad Gal,Oye Gureje,Josep Maria Haro,Chiyi Hu,Elie G. Karam,Norito Kawakami,Sing Lee,Jean-Pierre Lépine,Johan Ormel,Jose Posada-Villa,Rajesh Sagar,Adley Tsang,Bedirhan Üstün,Svetlozar Vassilev,Maria Carmen Viana,Daniel R. Williams +32 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined joint associations of 12 childhood adversities with first onset of 20 DSM-IV disorders in World Mental Health Surveys in 21 countries and found strong associations with all classes of disorders at all life-course stages.
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Cross-national epidemiology of DSM-IV major depressive episode
Evelyn J. Bromet,Laura Helena Andrade,Irving Hwang,Nancy A. Sampson,Jordi Alonso,Giovanni de Girolamo,Ron de Graaf,Koen Demyttenaere,Chiyi Hu,Noboru Iwata,A. N. Karam,Jagdish Kaur,Stanislav Kostyuchenko,Jean-Pierre Lépine,Daphna Levinson,Herbert Matschinger,Maria Elena Medina Mora,Mark Anthony Oakley Browne,Jose Posada-Villa,Maria Carmen Viana,David R. Williams,Ronald C. Kessler +21 more
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.