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What disease do British doctors have to deal with most often?

a) colds.
b) Ear infections.
c) depression.
d) Sleep disorders.

The most common illness British doctors have to deal with is depression; it is also the fourth most common disease in the world, after pneumonia/bronchitis, diarrhea and HIV/AIDS (WHO, 1999).

According to doctors, every year up to 10% of women and 3-5% of men suffer from clinical (that is, severe) depression.

Approximately 3,2 million people in Britain (7%) are diagnosed with clinical depression, and every day the situation is getting worse and worse. Between 1990 and 2000, the number of prescriptions for all kinds of antidepressant drugs issued by doctors in the United Kingdom rose by more than ten million.

According to experts, depression costs the British economy £8 billion a year - through sick leave, medical costs, suicide and lost productivity - the equivalent of £160 a year for every man, woman and child.

And it's not just the climate or inherent British miserabilism: at one time or another, up to 25 million Americans (9%) suffer from clinical depression. In Australia, even children as young as five are treated for depression.

In Bangladesh, the most common disease is without a doubt diarrhoea, followed by worms. At the same time, depression (especially among women) is quite widespread - about 3% of the country's population suffers from it.

In Africa, where HIV and malaria are the first and second most common diseases, depression ranks eleventh. In most Third World countries, which are culturally highly suspicious of insanity, depression is difficult to diagnose and, unlike in Western countries, the symptoms are more physical than mental.

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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