Most patients with depression get poor care, or none at all - study

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - The vast majority of the estimated 350 million people worldwide suffering from depression are not receiving even minimally adequate treatment, according to an international study backed by the World Health Organization. The research, which covered almost 50,000 people in 21 countries, found that even in wealthy nations with relatively good health services, barely 20 percent of depression patients get adequate treatment. In poor countries the situation is far worse, the study found, with only one in 27 people with depression receiving adequate treatment.  "Much treatment currently offered to people with depression falls far short," said Graham Thornicroft, a professor at King's College London who led the study. Read More http://ift.tt/2gHAlg2

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