Major Depressive Disorder – Epidemiology and Burden

Lifetime prevelance: The proportion of individuals in a population that at some point in their life up to the time of assessment have experienced MDD.

This slide provides data on the current (2011) size of mental disorders and neurological disorders for the EU. 12 month prevalence data are based on a complex interdisciplinary effort, structured literature reviews, re-analyses of existing data sets, and appraisals. The r…

Source:
Depression. Factsheet no. 369. Available at:
https://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs369/en/. Accessed April 2016.

MDD has a worldwide prevalence of 4.4%, corresponding to 298 million people (estimate from 2010 Global Burden of Disease Study[GBDS]).^{[Ferrari et al., PLoS One 2013]} Overall, prevalence is higher in females (5.5%) than in males (3.2%), corresponding to 187 million females…

Amongst the classes of non-communicable disease, neuropsychiatric disorders are the largest contributor to the global disease burden, accounting for 28% of disability-adjusted life years (DALYS) – ahead of cardiovascular disease (22%) and cancer (11%).^{[Prince et al., 2007…}

!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?-- The DALY is a health gap measure for burden of disease, capturing both years of life lost due to premature mortality and years of life lost due to living with disability. Overall, the burden of disease in mental a…

!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?-- This slides illustrates the global social burden of MDD. The data are based on a systematic review of epidemiological data by Ferrari et al 2013. For this data were pooled using a Bayesian meta-regression. These w…

!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?-- This slides illustrates European burden of MDD with a focus on costs inferred due to impact on work.

Note that:
Absenteeism = lost days of work.
Presenteeism = low performance while at work, which is transformed i…

This slide shows the cost per patients of selected mental disorders in Europe in 2010. The report covers the 27 EU countries plus Switzerland, Norway, and Iceland. The wider spectrum of mood disorders (also labeled affective disorders), include two particularly important …

!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?-- This slide shows the cost per patient of selected mental disorders in Europe in 2010. The report covers the 27 EU countries plus Switzerland, Norway, and Iceland. The wider spectrum of mood disorders (also labeled…

!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?-- This slide shows the number of persons with disorders of the brain in Europe. The report covers the 27 EU countries plus Switzerland, Norway, and Iceland. The wider spectrum of mood disorders (also labeled affecti…

!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?-- This slide shows the cost per diagnosis of selected mental disorders in Europe in 2010. Due to the relative high number of persons diagnosed and the relative high cost per patient, mood disorders ranks as number 1…

This slide shows the cost per diagnosis of selected mental disorders in Europe in 2010. Due to the relative high number of persons diagnosed and the relative high cost per patient, mood disorders ranks as number 1 of the diseases contributing to the total costs of mental …