Executive summary The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent an exponential
advance from the Millennium Development Goals, with a substantially broader agenda …

Current treatments and the dominant model of mental health care do not adequately
address the complex challenges of mental illness, which accounts for roughly one-third of …

Background: The economic burden of depression in the United States—including major
depressive disorder (MDD), bipolar disorder, and dysthymia—was estimated at $83.1 billion …

Background Common mental health problems, such as depression and anxiety, are
estimated to affect up to 15% of the UK population at any one time, and health care systems …

Objective: Collaborative chronic care models (CCMs) improve outcome in chronic medical
illnesses and depression treated in primary care settings. The effect of such models across …

In the wake of national health care reform, an unprecedented number of people will become
newly insured. Given the high rates of uninsurance among people with mental illness and …

Mental disorders account for 25% of all health-related disability worldwide. More patients
receive treatment for mental disorders in the primary care sector than in the mental health …

Context Pain and depression are the most common physical and psychological symptoms in
primary care, respectively. Moreover, they co-occur 30% to 50% of the time and have …

Context Patients with depression and poorly controlled diabetes mellitus, coronary heart
disease (CHD), or both have higher medical complication rates and higher health care …

The quality of chronic care in America is low, and the cost is high. To help inform efforts to
overhaul the ailing US healthcare system, including those related to the “medical home,” …