Care-seeking as a proxy indicator of the mental health of elderly Brazilians.

CONCLUSIONS: Publicly available data from DATASUS may not enable inferences about the prevalence of mental disorders in elders, but inferential analyses match what is known about these conditions. This approach is supplemental to other more common ones and is of special importance for policymakers and health system managers. PMID: 32491042 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32491042?dopt=Abstract

Source: Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria - May 31, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Castro-de-Araujo LF, Machado DB, Barreto ML Tags: Braz J Psychiatry Source Type: research