Population mental health improves with increasing access to treatment: evidence from a dynamic modelling analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Multiple studies indicate that the prevalence of mental disorders in high-income countries has remained stable or increased despite substantial increases in the provision of care, leading some authors to question the effectiveness of increasing access to current treatments as a means of improving population mental health.

Methods

We developed a system dynamics model of mental disorder incidence and treatment-dependent recovery to assess two potential explanations for the apparent failure of increasing treatment provision to reduce mental disorder prevalence: 1) an increase in the individual-level risk of disorder onset; and 2) declining effectiveness of care resulting from insufficient services capacity growth. Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods were

SUBMITTER: Skinner A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9644460 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature