@article{ref1,
title="'Global mental health': systematic review of the term and its implicit priorities",
journal="BJPsych open",
year="2019",
author="Misra, Supriya and Stevenson, Anne and Haroz, Emily E. and de Menil, Victoria and Koenen, Karestan C.",
volume="5",
number="3",
pages="e47-e47",
abstract="BACKGROUND: The term 'global mental health' came to the fore in 2007, when the Lancet published a series by that name. AIMS: To review all peer-reviewed articles using the term 'global mental health' and determine the implicit priorities of scientific literature that self-identifies with this term. <br><br>METHOD: We conducted a systematic review to quantify all peer-reviewed articles using the English term 'global mental health' in their text published between 1 January 2007 and 31 December 2016, including by geographic regions and by mental health conditions. <br><br>RESULTS: A total of 467 articles met criteria. Use of the term 'global mental health' increased from 12 articles in 2007 to 114 articles in 2016. For the 111 empirical studies (23.8% of articles), the majority (78.4%) took place in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with the most in Sub-Saharan Africa (28.4%) and South Asia (25.5%) and none from Central Asia. The most commonly studied mental health conditions were depression (29.7%), psychoses (12.6%) and conditions specifically related to stress (12.6%), with fewer studies on epilepsy (2.7%), self-harm and suicide (1.8%) and dementia (0.9%). The majority of studies lacked contextual information, including specific region(s) within countries where studies took place (20.7% missing), specific language(s) in which studies were conducted (36.9% missing), and details on ethnic identities such as ethnicity, caste and/or tribe (79.6% missing) and on socioeconomic status (85.4% missing). <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Research identifying itself as 'global mental health' has focused predominantly on depression in LMICs and lacked contextual and sociodemographic data that limit interpretation and application of findings. DECLARATION OF INTEREST: None.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2056-4724",
doi="10.1192/bjo.2019.39",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2019.39"
}