Population-based care of depression: effective disease management strategies to decrease prevalence.
This paper reviews the concepts of population-based care and disease management of major depression. Population-based care and disease management strategies motivated by health care reform provide approaches for organizing health services to lower the prevalence of common medical and psychiatric illnesses in primary care populations. We apply these concepts to the organization of services for patients with major depression.
Katon
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Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington Medical School, Seattle, USA. WKATON@U.WASHINGTON.EDU
Von Korff
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Lin
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Unützer
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Simon
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Walker
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Ludman
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Bush
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D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations; D006284:Health Plan Implementation; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008403:Mass Screening; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011159:Population Surveillance; D011320:Primary Health Care; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology