"Endorsed by the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA)"

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Global perspective on depression and anxiety / Dawit Wondimagegn -- Alternative approaches to the 'diagnose and treat' model of care / Richard Byng -- Assessment for depression and anxiety in primary care -- The case for and against screening / Felicity Goodyear-Smith -- Tools used for assessing and screening for depression and anxiety in primary care / Sherina Mohd Sidik and Felicity Goodyear-Smith -- Depression and anxiety in primary care in Africa -- Depression and anxiety in Ethiopia / Dawit Wondimagegn -- Depression and anxiety in Ghana / Henry J. Lawson -- Depression and anxiety in Nigeria / Tijani Idris Ahmad Oseni -- Depression and anxiety in South Africa / Bob Mash and Vanessa Lomas-Marais -- Depression and anxiety in primary care in Asia Pacific -- Depression and anxiety in Australia / Alison Flehr, Caroline Johnson, Catherine Kaylor-Hughes and Jane Gunn -- Depression and anxiety in Hong Kong, SAR / Amy Pui Pui Ng, Weng Yee Chin and Julie Yun Chen -- Depression and anxiety in Malaysia / Sherina Mohd Sidik, Noor Ani Ahmad and Nurashikin Ibrahim -- Depression and anxiety in primary care in the East Mediterranean -- Anxiety and depression in Egypt / Nagwa Nashat Hegazy -- Depression and anxiety in Tunisia / Malek Chaabouni and Asma Chaabouni -- Depression and anxiety in primary care in Europe -- Depression and anxiety in Greece / Christos Lionis -- Depression and anxiety in Luxembourg / Raquel Gómez Bravo -- Depression and anxiety in Türkiye / Sabah Tuzun, Pemra Cöbek Ünalan and Saliha Serap Cifcili -- Depression and anxiety in the United Kingdom / Amanda Howe -- Depression and anxiety in primary care in Ibero-Americana -- Depression and anxiety in Argentina / Lidia Caballero, Matías Tonnelier and Silvia Reina -- Depression and anxiety in Brazil / Adelson Guaraci Jantsch -- Depression and anxiety in Ecuador / Miriann Mora Verdugo, Diana López and Yolanda Dávila -- Depression and anxiety in primary care in North America -- Depression and anxiety in Canada / Alan Ng Cheng Hin -- Depression and anxiety in the United States of America / Lesca Cherise Hadley and Thomas Shima -- Depression and anxiety in primary care in South Asia -- Depression and anxiety in Nepal / Pramendra Prasad Gupta -- Depression and anxiety in Pakistan / Saniya Sabzwari -- Depression and anxiety in migrant, refugee and war-zone populations -- Screening of migrants in Canada / David Ponka -- Mental health screening of Syrian, Iraqi, Afghan and other refugees awaiting migration from Türkiye to the United States / Mehmet Ungan and Aysegul Cömert -- Mental health disorders, anxiety and depression in Ukrainians associated with war and migration / Victoria Tkachenko -- Interventions for treating depression and anxiety in primary care -- 'Watchful waiting' - a powerful approach / Anna Stavdal and Susan Senstad -- Psychotherapeutic interventions for depression and anxiety in primary care / Vinicius Jobim Fischer, Raquel Gómez Bravo and Alice Einloft Brunnet -- Use of pharmaceutical interventions for primary care management of depression and anxiety / Allen F. Shaughnessy and Lisa Cosgrove -- Improving practice -- Nice guidelines on depression and anxiety / Sherina Mohd Sidik and Felicity Goodyear-Smith -- A team approach to health and well-being in primary care - the Aotearoa (New Zealand) example / Felicity Goodyear-Smith -- Integrating physical and mental health services in primary care / Mehmet Akman -- Conclusion / Sherina Mohd Sidik and Felicity Goodyear-Smith

This book provides practical information about depression and anxiety in primary care, with a focus on the approach in different countries and incorporating global ranges/prevalence, risk factors and health burden including that associated with COVID-19 and its pandemic. To ensure the challenges of a wide international primary care community are reflected fully, authors from different world regions - Africa, Asia Pacific, East Mediterranean, Europe, IberoAmericana-CIMF, North America and South Asia - have co-contributed to individual chapters on the detection and management of depression and anxiety in primary care in their own countries, including the screening tools used, how widely these tools are adopted and by whom, and current policies. As well as the medical model, it also presents the alternative viewpoint that feeling low or anxious is part of the human condition and the attention should be on supporting people in their journey through life, struggling to deal with the mainly social challenges they meet, rather than defining these problems as disorders or diseases requiring identification and treatment. Key Features: Explores the instruments used for the detection of depression and anxiety in primary care in various countries, and why and how these instruments are being used Describes the pharmaceutical and non-drug interventions for treating depression and anxiety in primary care and compares the similarities and differences in detecting and managing depression and anxiety in primary care among different countries Includes in-depth regional examples of how screening tools are used in practice and how policies can be established in the management of depression and anxiety in primary care Concludes with lessons learned from various countries and from different stakeholders with clear advice on what to do and, importantly, what not to do Addressing primary care detection and management of mental health issues across the globe, the book will be an invaluable practical aid for family medicine practitioners and the wider primary and community care teams and a useful reference for those involved in policy setting at regional and national levels including ministries of health.

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Sherina Mohd Sidik, MBBS, MMED (Fam Med), PhD (Community Health) is a family medicine specialist and professor in family medicine at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia. Felicity Goodyear-Smith, MBChB, MGP, MD, FRNZCGP (Dist) is a general practitioner and professor of general practice and primary health care at The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

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