World Mental Health Survey Initiative (Services Workgroup)
Associate Professor Meredith Harris is a current collaborator of the World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative.
The WMH Survey Initiative is a project of the Assessment, Classification, and Epidemiology (ACE) Group at the World Health Organization. It seeks to provide accurate cross-national estimates of the prevalence, impairment, social consequences and help-seeking patterns of people with mental and substance use disorders. The WMH Survey Initiative includes nationally or regionally representative surveys in 29 countries across all regions of the world.
The Services Workgroup was established to develop and report on measures of the quality and quantity of mental health care, patient perceptions of mental health care, and the economic burden of mental and substance use disorders. Most recently, Associate Professor Harris led the first in a series of papers on the perceived helpfulness of lifetime treatment for mental and substance use disorders, focused on people with major depressive disorder.
The papers in the series are:
- Perceived helpfulness of treatment for major depressive disorder
- Perceived helpfulness of treatment for bipolar disorder
- Perceived helpfulness of treatment for social anxiety disorder
- Perceived helpfulness of treatment for specific phobia
- Perceived helpfulness of treatment for posttraumatic stress
- Perceived helpfulness of treatment for alcohol use disorders
- Percieved helpfulness of treatment for common mental and substance use disorders
- Perceived helpfulness of sectors used for mental and substance use disorders
A full list of WMH publications is available here: https://www.hcp.med.harvard.edu/wmh/publications.php
Project team
Meredith Harris
