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Sing Lee
Researcher at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Publications - 274
Citations - 32931
Sing Lee is an academic researcher from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Population. The author has an hindex of 70, co-authored 258 publications receiving 26256 citations. Previous affiliations of Sing Lee include Shatin Hospital & Harvard University.
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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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Age of onset of mental disorders: a review of recent literature
Ronald C. Kessler,G. Paul Amminger,Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola,Jordi Alonso,Sing Lee,T. Bedirhan Üstün +5 more
TL;DR: Although interventions with early incipient disorders might help reduce severity-persistence of primary disorders and prevent secondary disorders, additional research is needed on appropriate treatments forEarly incipient cases and on long-term evaluation of the effects of early intervention on secondary prevention.
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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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Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of mental disorders in the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative.
Ronald C. Kessler,Matthias C. Angermeyer,James C. Anthony,Ron de Graaf,Koen Demyttenaere,Isabelle Gasquet,Giovanni de Girolamo,Semyon Gluzman,Oye Gureje,Josep Maria Haro,Norito Kawakami,Aimee N. Karam,Daphna Levinson,Maria Elena Medina Mora,Mark Anthony Oakley Browne,Jose Posada-Villa,Dan J. Stein,Cheuk Him Adley Tsang,Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola,Jordi Alonso,Sing Lee,Steven G. Heeringa,Beth-Ellen Pennell,Patricia A. Berglund,Michael J. Gruber,Maria Petukhova,Somnath Chatterji,T. Bedirhan Üstün +27 more
TL;DR: The lifetime prevalence, projected lifetime risk, and age of onset of DSM-IV disorders were assessed with the WHO Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI), a fully-structured lay administered diagnostic interview as mentioned in this paper.
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The global burden of mental disorders : An update from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys
Ronald C. Kessler,Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola,Jordi Alonso,Somnath Chatterji,Sing Lee,Johan Ormel,T. Bedirhan Üstün,Philip S. Wang +7 more
TL;DR: Adult mental disorders are found to be associated with such high role impairment in the WMH data that available clinical interventions could have positive cost-effectiveness ratios.