Even though mental disorders are said to account for a large portion of disease burden worldwide, no national studies have been undertaken to assess this assumption in the Arab world.
To overcome this and as part of the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative, a nationally representative psychiatric epidemiological survey of 2857 adults was done in Lebanon between September, 2002, and September, 2003, through a study called LEBANON (Lebanese Evaluation of the Burden of Ailments and Needs Of the Nation)....
Even though mental disorders are said to account for a large portion of disease burden worldwide, no national studies have been undertaken to assess this assumption in the Arab world.
To overcome this and as part of the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative, a nationally representative psychiatric epidemiological survey of 2857 adults was done in Lebanon between September, 2002, and September, 2003, through a study called LEBANON (Lebanese Evaluation of the Burden of Ailments and Needs Of the Nation)....