Why isn’t treatment for depression leading to lower prevalence?

In this episode of the Up Close podcast, public health researcher Professor Tony Jorm asks why prevalence of anxiety and depression in North America, Australia and elsewhere has not decreased despite a quarter century of more and better treatment for two of the world’s most common mental health problems.

“Although more people are getting treatment, it may not be very good treatment ... we hypothesize there is actually a quality gap,” he says.

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