The validity and reliability of the World Health Organization Mental Disorders Checklist for use in a telehealth clinic in Hong Kong

SummaryThis editorial summarises the work done to prepare ICD–11 and DSM–V (which should be published in 2015 and 2013 respectively). It gives a brief description of the structures that have been put in place by the World Health Organization and by the American Psychiatric Association and lists the issues and challenges that face the two organisations on their road to the revisions of the classifications. These include dilemmas about the ways of presentation of the revisions (e.g. whether dimensions should be added to categories or even replace them), about different versions of the classifications (e.g. the primary care and research versions), about ways to ensure that the best of evidence as well as experience are taken into account in drafting the revision and many other issues that will have to be resolved in the immediate future.

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Criteria for removing WHO travel warnings in relation to SARS - outcome of discussions between Hong Kong and World Health Organization

Weekly releases (1997–2007) ◽

10.2807/esw.07.19.02224-en ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 7 (19) ◽

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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽

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During a videoconference between Geneva and Hong Kong on 6 May, the World Health Organization (WHO) thanked the Hong Kong Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food for Hong Kong's continuing efforts at containing severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). WHO thanked the Health Secretary in particular for allowing a Malaysian ship to enter the port recently with suspected SARS cases on board.

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Chapter 6 Treated and untreated prevalence of mental disorders: results from the World Health Organization World Mental Health (WMH) surveys

Oxford Textbook of Community Mental Health ◽

10.1093/med/9780199565498.003.0027 ◽

2010 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Philip S. Wang ◽

Aguilar-Gaxiola Sergio ◽

Ali Obaid AlHamzawi ◽

Jordi Alonso ◽

Laura Helena Andrade ◽

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Ageing and mental health resources for older persons in the African region of the World Health Organization

South African Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.4102/sajpsychiatry.v14i1.82 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 5

Author(s):

Carlos Augusto De Mendonca Lima ◽

Annette Leibing ◽

Rudiger Buschfort

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Mental Health ◽

Mental Disorders ◽

Life Expectancy ◽

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Child Mortality ◽

Older Persons ◽

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