Unofficial Translation
Approved by the Federal Government on October 20, 2016
Migration & health position paper series
Cross-cutting health themes
Tuberculosis, Migration and human mobility
Systematic Review Summary 4
DHS Analytical Studies No. 36
DHS Analytical Studies No. 41
Mental health conditions affect one in 10 people at any one time and account for a large proportion of non-fatal disease burden. There is a high degree of comorbidity between mental health conditions such as depression and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including cardiovascular disease, diab...etes and alcohol-use disorders. Mental disorders share common features with other NCDs, including many underlying causes and overarching consequences, their high interdependency and tendency to co-occur, and their predilection to being best managed using integrated approaches.
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