About the Authors
- Dan J. Stein
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Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
- Wai Tat Chiu
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Affiliation Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Irving Hwang
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Affiliation Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Ronald C. Kessler
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* E-mail: Kessler@hcp.med.harvard.edu
Affiliation Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Nancy Sampson
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Affiliation Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Jordi Alonso
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Affiliation Health Services Research Unit, Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica (IMIM-Hospital del Mar), CIBER en Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain
- Guilherme Borges
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiological Research, Division of Epidemiological and Psychosocial Research, National Institute of Psychiatry (Mexico) and Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico City, Mexico
- Evelyn Bromet
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Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York, United States of America
- Ronny Bruffaerts
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Affiliation University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
- Giovanni de Girolamo
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Affiliation Instituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy
- Silvia Florescu
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Affiliation National School of Public Health and Health Services Management, Bucharest, Romania
- Oye Gureje
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Affiliation University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria
- Yanling He
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Affiliation Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai, China
- Viviane Kovess-Masfety
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Affiliation EA 4069 Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
- Daphna Levinson
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Affiliation Research and Planning, Mental Health Services, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel
- Herbert Matschinger
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Affiliation Clinic of Psychiatry, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Zeina Mneimneh
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Affiliations Institute for Development, Research, Advocacy and Applied Care (IDRAAC), Beirut, Lebanon, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Yosikazu Nakamura
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Affiliation School of Public Health, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi-ken, Japan
- Johan Ormel
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Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University Center for Psychiatry, Groningen, Netherlands
- Jose Posada-Villa
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Affiliation Centro Medico de la Sabana, Universidad Javerina, Bogota, Colombia
- Rajesh Sagar
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Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India
- Kate M. Scott
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Affiliation Department of Psychological Medicine, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Otago, New Zealand
- Toma Tomov
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Affiliation Institute for Human Relations, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Maria Carmen Viana
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Affiliation Department of Psychiatric Epidemiology, Institute of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- David R. Williams
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Affiliation Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Matthew K. Nock
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Affiliation Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
Dr. Stein has received research grants and/or consultancy honoraria from Astrazeneca, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson, Lundbeck, Orion, Pfizer, Pharmacia, Roche, Servier, Solvay, Sumitomo, Takeda, Tikvah, and Wyeth. Dr. Kessler has been a consultant for GlaxoSmithKline, Kaiser Permanente, Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis, Shire Pharmaceuticals, and Wyeth-Ayerst; has served on advisory boards for Eli Lilly and Company and Wyeth-Ayerst; and has had research support for his epidemiological studies from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly and Company, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals, Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, and Sanofi-Aventis. These competing interest statements do not alter the authors' adherence to the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DJS RCK JA GB EB RB GdG SF OG YH VKM DL HM JO JPV RS KMS TT MCV DRW. Performed the experiments: JA GB RB GdG SF OG YH VKM DL HM ZM YN JO JPV RS KMS TT MCV DRW. Analyzed the data: DJS WTC IH RCK NS MKN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DJS RCK MKN. Wrote the paper: DJS RCK MKN. Critical revision of the manuscript: WTC IH NS JA GB EB RB GdG SF OG YH V-KM DL HM ZM YN JO JP-V RS KMS TT MCV DRW MKN. Experiments referring to the survey fieldwork done in each country: JA GB EB RB GdG SF OG YH V-KM DL HM ZM YN JO JP-V RS KMS TT MCV DRW.