Depression and Antidepressants: A Nordic Perspective

Frontiers in Public Health

Andreas Vilhelmsson¹ 

关键词: depression;    antidepressants;    public health;    Nordic countries;    medicine;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2013.00030

学科分类：卫生学

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The most common form of treatment of depression is antidepressant medication. They are currently ranked ninth among prescription drugs with global sales well over $20 billion (16). Overall, antidepressant prescriptions have risen, but this has been offset by a number of patent expiries and generic alternatives (17). As Figure ​Figure11 shows, sales of antidepressants in the Nordic countries have increased up to fourfold since the middle of the 90s (18, 19).

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