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These articles investigate the important but often hidden burden of mental health conditions across different social, economic and physical strata, with special attention to persistent disparities in mental illness prevention, prevalence, treatment and care.

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  • Guide to community preventive services

    Clinical and Community Prevention and Treatment Service for Depression: A Whole Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts

    American Journal of Preventive Medicine
    Vol. 42Issue 5p556–557Published in issue: May, 2012
    • Ned Calonge
    Cited in Scopus: 2
      To capitalize on all the health benefits of providing evidence-based preventive services to individuals, there must be strategies that promote the delivery of these services at the population level. This is a critical underlying concept for the interaction between two distinct but interrelated working groups, well described by Fielding and Teustch,1 and acknowledged and supported by Congress in the Affordable Care Act: the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) hosted by the Agency for Health Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Guide to Community Preventive Services (the Community Guide) hosted by the CDC.
    • Guide to community preventive services

      Collaborative Depression Care Models: From Development to Dissemination

      American Journal of Preventive Medicine
      Vol. 42Issue 5p550–552Published in issue: May, 2012
      • Wayne Katon
      Cited in Scopus: 62
        In 1978 the first multi-site mental health epidemiologic study in the U.S. reported that more than 50% of community respondents with depressive disorders were treated exclusively within the primary care system.1 As a result, primary care was labeled the “de facto mental health system” for Americans with the more prevalent but less severe mental health disorders.1 Subsequent research over the next decade found that only 25% to 50% of patients with depressive disorders were accurately diagnosed by primary care physicians.
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