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Mental health of young people: a global public-health challenge

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This work proposes a population-based, youth focused model, explicitly integrating mental health with other youth health and welfare expertise, and challenges to addressing mental- health needs include the shortage of mental-health professionals, the fairly low capacity and motivation of non-specialist health workers, and the stigma associated with mental disorder.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2007-04-14. It has received 2249 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Psychological intervention & Mental health law.

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Global burden of disease in young people aged 10–24 years: a systematic analysis

TL;DR: The health of young people has been largely neglected in global public health because this age group is perceived as healthy, however, opportunities for prevention of disease and injury in this agegroup are not fully exploited.
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Depression in adolescence

TL;DR: Unipolar depressive disorder in adolescence is common worldwide but often unrecognised, and the incidence, notably in girls, rises sharply after puberty and, by the end of adolescence, the 1 year prevalence rate exceeds 4%.
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Resources for mental health: scarcity, inequity, and inefficiency

TL;DR: Scarcity of available resources, inequities in their distribution, and inefficiencies in their use pose the three main obstacles to better mental health, especially in low-income and middle-income countries.
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Lifetime Prevalence and Age-of-Onset Distributions of DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication

TL;DR: Lifetime prevalence estimates are higher in recent cohorts than in earlier cohorts and have fairly stable intercohort differences across the life course that vary in substantively plausible ways among sociodemographic subgroups.
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The epidemiology of major depressive disorder: results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R).

TL;DR: Notably, major depressive disorder is a common disorder, widely distributed in the population, and usually associated with substantial symptom severity and role impairment, and while the recent increase in treatment is encouraging, inadequate treatment is a serious concern.
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The world report on violence and health.

TL;DR: The first World Report on Violence and Health analyses different types of violence including child abuse and neglect, youth violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, elder abuse, self-directed violence, and collective violence.
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Prevalence and Development of Psychiatric Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence

TL;DR: The risk of having at least 1 psychiatric disorder by age 16 years is much higher than point estimates would suggest and concurrent comorbidity and homotypic and heterotypic continuity are more marked in girls than in boys.
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