‘Overlooked and underfunded’: experts call for global action to deal with depression
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Globally, the World Health Organization estimates that 5% of adults worldwide suffer from depression each year. Nevertheless, it remains a neglected health crisis, which is frequently first experienced from the onset of adolescence.
Despite long-established research demonstrating that there is much that policymakers can be doing to prevent depression and aid recovery even in a resource-limited setting, in high-income countries, around half of the people suffering from depression are not diagn...
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