2006
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.106.029983
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The schizophrenia drug-treatment paradox: pharmacological treatment based on best possible evidence may be hardest to practise in high-income countries

Abstract: Most people with schizophrenia live in low- and middle-income countries in which clinicians/policy makers are not the first targets of marketing. Because it is years after a drug is first launched that the full effects become known with confidence, the evidence upon which to base practice in low- and middle-income countries may be less biased than that in richer nations.

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“…Developing countries typically spend less than 1% of their health budget on mental health [15], and one of the consequences of this under-spending is a high prevalence of untreated schizophrenia in the form of undetected as well as inadequately and partially treated cases. In Bihar, one poor state in India, there are more people suffering from schizophrenia than in the whole of North America [16]. The high prevalence in developing countries is partly explained by the predominantly younger population of the developing world (schizophrenia is a disease of young adults).…”
Section: Saeed Farooq's Viewpoint: Directly Observed Therapy (Dots) Imentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Developing countries typically spend less than 1% of their health budget on mental health [15], and one of the consequences of this under-spending is a high prevalence of untreated schizophrenia in the form of undetected as well as inadequately and partially treated cases. In Bihar, one poor state in India, there are more people suffering from schizophrenia than in the whole of North America [16]. The high prevalence in developing countries is partly explained by the predominantly younger population of the developing world (schizophrenia is a disease of young adults).…”
Section: Saeed Farooq's Viewpoint: Directly Observed Therapy (Dots) Imentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These interventions were also rated highest on ease of implementation and can be implemented in developing countries, provided access to the drugs is ensured through a programme akin to DOTS. The cost of antipsychotic medication, including recent atypical drugs, is surprisingly very low in many developing countries [16]. …”
Section: Saeed Farooq's Viewpoint: Directly Observed Therapy (Dots) Imentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Because policy effectiveness varies widely depending on context (e.g., type of delivery system) and program design (e.g., size of incentive payments) (24, 25), we let it vary from 0%, or status quo testing rates(i.e., observed testing rates in the Medicaid data), to 100%, a universal testing scenario where every eligible patient is tested annually. Because a 20% improvement in testing rates is feasible with modest policies (e.g., with pay-for-performance [P4P] programs incentivizing screening, see (26), the model allowed for 20% increments from the status quo to the universal testing scenario.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Tais idéias têm sido gravemente questionadas por estudos independentes recentes, mostrando sérias limitações em termos de efetividade e de riscos não esperados. [3][4][5] Como outro exemplo recente na medicina, que custou milhares de vidas, podese citar o uso do Vioxx 6 (rofecoxib). Do ponto de vista da atenção direta aos pacientes, chama atenção a postura de humildade de Pinel na disposição em aprender ao máximo com Pussin, "vigilante do hospício de alienados" (p. 63).…”
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