Unmet needs of child and adolescent psychiatrists among Asian and European countries: does the Human Development Index (HDI) count?
Unmet needs of child and adolescent psychiatrists among Asian and European countries: does the Human Development Index (HDI) count?
Andre Sourander 0 1 2 3 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Roshan Chudal 0 1 2 3 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Norbert Skokauskas 0 1 2 3 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Ahmed Malallah AlA‑nsari 0 1 2 3 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Anat Brunstein Klomek 0 1 2 3 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Chanvit Pornnoppadol 0 1 2 3 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Gerasimos Kolaitis 0 1 2 3 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Junko Maezono 0 1 2 3 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Hans‑Cristoph Steinhausen 0 1 2 3 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Helena Slobodskaya 0 1 2 3 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Hitoshi Kaneko 0 1 2 3 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Jaya Regmee 0 1 2 3 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Liping Li 0 1 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Mai Huong Nguyen 0 1 2 3 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Meytal Grimland 0 1 2 3 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Olga Osokina 0 1 2 3 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Say How Ong 0 1 2 3 5 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Samir Kumar Praharaj 0 1 2 3 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Sigita Lesinskienė 0 1 2 3 4 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Sturla Fossum 0 1 2 3 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Tjhin Wiguna 0 1 2 3 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Valentina A. Makasheva 0 1 2 3 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Venla Lehti 0 1 2 3 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
0 Department of Psychiatry, National Hospital of Pediatrics , Hanoi , Vietnam
1 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department, Kanti Children's Hospital/Child Workers in Nepal Concerned Centre (CWIN) , Kathmandu , Nepal
2 Donetsk National Medical University , Donetsk , Ukraine
3 Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv , Israel
4 Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University , Vilnius , Lithuania
5 Institute of Mental Health, Singapore , Singapore
6 Department of Psychiatry, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki , Helsinki , Finland
7 Shantou University and Medical School , Shantou , China
8 University of Tromsø , Tromsø , Norway
9 Department of Psychiatry, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Manipal University , Manipal , India
10 Novosibirsk Regional Psycho-neurology Clinic for Children and Adolescents , Novosibirsk , Russia
11 Dr. Cipto Mangukusumo General Hospital-Faculty of Medicine Universitas of Indonesia , Jakarta , Indonesia
12 Arabian Gulf University , Manama , Bahrain
13 Norwegian University of Science and Technology , Trondheim , Norway
14 University of Turku and Turku University Hospital , Turku , Finland
15 Andre Sourander
16 Nagoya University , Nagoya , Japan
17 Capital Region Psychiatry , Copenhagen , Denmark
18 University of Basel , Basel , Switzerland
19 University of Zurich , Zürich , Switzerland
20 School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens , Athens , Greece
21 Mahidol University , Bangkok , Thailand
22 Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya , Herzliya , Israel
In the Western world, it is estimated that between one-third to one-fourth of children and adolescents meet the diagnostic criteria for a mental disorder in their lifetime [1]. More recently, a meta-analysis of studies from 27 countries reported the worldwide-pooled prevalence of mental disorders of 13.4% and the variability in prevalence estimates were not explained by geographic location [2]. More than half of mental health disorders in adulthood start by the age of 14 years [3]. However, there are various limitations for Andre Sourander and Roshan Chudal shared first authorship.
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10 Institute of Physiology and Basic Medicine, Russia
Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
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of the burden of CAMH in high-income countries, there
are huge unmet needs in low-income and middle-income
countries [
5, 6
]. Moreover, recent estimates of the numbers
of professionals working in child and adolescent psychiatry
(CAP) have been lacking, as the last available World Health
Organization (WHO) Child Mental Health Atlas is more
than a decade old [5].
The Eurasian Child Mental Health Study (EACMHS),
established September 2016, includes CAMH experts in
ten Asian and seven European countries: Bahrain, China,
Finland, Greece, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Lithuania,
Nepal, Norway, Russia, Singapore, Switzerland, Thailand,
Ukraine and Vietnam [
7, 8
]. The overall aim of the group is
to conduct cross-cultural, multi-site research on the
wellbeing and mental health of children and adolescents.
This editorial reports the ratios of child and adolescent
psychiatrists per population size of 100,000 children aged
14 years or younger. The age limit of 14 years was made to
ensure a uniform data source for children’s population as
the World Bank data prov (...truncated)