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  • Determinants of effective treatment coverage for major depressive disorder in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

    With data from 17 WHO World Mental Health Surveys conducted in 15 countries, Dr. Vigo and co-authors examined obstacles to providing or receiving care, the type of care received, and the quality and use of that care in a representative sample of individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD). The results indicate that obtaining a high […]

  • The True Global Disease Burden of Mental Illness: Still Elusive

    This new Lancet Psychiatry article critiques the recent Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study, and re-estimates the burden of mental, neurological, substance use disorders and suicide. Vigo, Jones, Atun & Thornicroft posit that the GBD study did not capture the disability caused by somatoform and personality disorders, and did not include mortality […]

  • Dawn of a New Day for Mental Health Systems

    June 2, 2021 Dr. Daniel Vigo has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Mental Health Systems (IJMHS). In his inaugural editorial, Dr. Vigo discusses his plans for the IJMHS to bridge the “knowledge to action” gap by encouraging translational research and implementation science through new areas of focus. “We are at the gates […]

  • The Differential Outcomes of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Low- and Middle-Income Countries vs High-Income Countries

    Vigo D, Thornicroft G, Gureje O. The Differential Outcomes of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Low- and Middle-Income Countries vs High-Income Countries. JAMA Psychiatry. Published online June 11, 2020.

  • Graph: Disease burden (DALYs) across the lifetime in Canada graph. Student E-Mental Health Project UBC

    Burden of Mental, Neurological, Substance Use Disorders and Self-Harm in North America

    The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 2020 Feb;65(2):87-98.

  • Graph: Mental disorders, neurological disorders, substance use disorders, and self-harm spending allocated to psychiatric hospitals vs GDP (purchasing power parity). Student E-Mental Health Project UBC

    Disease Burden and Government Spending on Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders, and Self-harm

    The Lancet Public Health. Published online November 13, 2018

  • Graph: Comparison of Global Burden of Disease 2013 disability-adjusted life-years with the authors' estimates graph. Student E-Mental Health Project UBC

    Estimating the True Global Burden of Mental Illness

    The Lancet Psychiatry. Published February 01, 2016

Dr. Daniel Vigo

                     Assistant Professor | Department of Psychiatry

DrPH, Harvard University (’17); MD, University of Buenos Aires (’07); Lic. in Psychology (Bachelor’s + Master’s), University of Buenos Aires (’00)

Mental Health Systems and Services Laboratory | Department of Psychiatry
Faculty of Medicine
Detwiller Pavilion
2255 Wesbrook Mall
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z3
Tel 604 218 2142
Email daniel.vigo@ubc.ca
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