About the Authors
- Tarun Dua
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Affiliation Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland
- Corrado Barbui
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Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Section of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
- Nicolas Clark
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Affiliation Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland
- Alexandra Fleischmann
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Affiliation Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland
- Vladimir Poznyak
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Affiliation Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland
- Mark van Ommeren
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Affiliation Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland
- M. Taghi Yasamy
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Affiliation Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland
- Jose Luis Ayuso-Mateos
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Affiliation Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain
- Gretchen L. Birbeck
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Affiliation International Neurologic and Psychiatric Epidemiology Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America; Epilepsy Care Team, Chikankata Hospital, Mazabuka, Zambia
- Colin Drummond
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Affiliation Department of Addiction, National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
- Melvyn Freeman
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Affiliation Cluster Manager, Non-communicable Diseases, National Department of Health, Pretoria, South Africa
- Panteleimon Giannakopoulos
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Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva, Geneva; Department of Psychiatry, Division of Old Age Psychiatry, Hospices-CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Itzhak Levav
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Affiliation Mental Health Services, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel
- Isidore S. Obot
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Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria
- Olayinka Omigbodun
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Affiliation College of Medicine, University of Ibadan & University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria
- Vikram Patel
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Affiliation Centre for Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom; Sangath, Goa, India
- Michael Phillips
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Affiliation Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China; Departments of Psychiatry and Global Health, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Martin Prince
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Affiliation King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Health Service and Population Research Department, London, United Kingdom
- Afarin Rahimi-Movaghar
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Affiliation Iranian Research Center for HIV/AIDS, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Atif Rahman
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Affiliation University of Liverpool, Institute of Psychology, Health & Society; Child Mental Health Unit, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Josemir W. Sander
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Affiliation UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom, SEIN – Epilepsy Institute in the Netherlands Foundation, Heemstede, The Netherlands
- John B. Saunders
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Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
- Chiara Servili
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Affiliation Child and Adolescent Health and Development, WHO Eritrea, Asmara, Eritrea
- Thara Rangaswamy
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Affiliation Schizophrenia Research Foundation (SCARF), Chennai, India
- Jürgen Unützer
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Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, University of Washington Medical Center; UW AIMS Center; IMPACT Implementation Program, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Peter Ventevogel
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Affiliation HealthNet TPO, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Lakshmi Vijayakumar
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Affiliation SNEHA and Voluntary Health Services, Chennai, India
- Graham Thornicroft
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Affiliation Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
- Shekhar Saxena
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* E-mail: saxenas@who.int
¶GT and SS are joint last authors.
Affiliation Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland
Competing Interests
JLA was paid in 2007 by Lundbeck S.A. for consultancy preparation of the research protocol for a study on the diagnostic delay in first episode of depression in contact with health care centers in Spain and was paid in 2009 by Sanofi Aventis S.A. for expert testimony on the side effects of veralapride. OO is the current President of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP) (http://www.iacapap.org/). JWS served on scientific advisory boards for GlaxoSmithKline (2010), Eisai (2009), and UCB (2009); received funding for travel from UCB (2008) and Janssen (2009); serves on the editorial boards of Lancet Neurology, Epilepsia and Epileptic Disorders; served on the speaker's bureaus of UCB (2009) and GlaxoSmithKline (2009); and has received research support from UCB (grant finished 2010), Eisai (grant finished 2008), the NIH (ongoing grant), the EU FP7 (ongoing grant), the Wellcome Trust (grant finished 2009), WHO (ongoing grant), the National Epilepsy Funds of the Netherlands (ongoing grant), and the Epilepsy Society (ongoing grant). His current position is endowed by the National Society for Epilepsy (UK). SS confirms that the competing interests of JWS were declared, reviewed, and deemed acceptable by the mhGAP Guideline Development Group. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: TD CB NC AF VP MvO MTY GT SS. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: TD CB NC AF VP MvO MTY GT SS JLA GLB CD MF PG IL ISO OO VP MiP MaP ARM AR JWS JBS CS TR JU PV LV. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: TD CB NC AF VP MvO MTY GT SS JLA GLB CD MF PG IL ISO OO VP MiP MaP ARM AR JWS JBS CS TR JU PV LV. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: TD CB NC AF VP MvO MTY GT SS JLA GLB CD MF PG IL ISO OO VP MiP MaP ARM AR JWS JBS CS TR JU PV LV.