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Depression: ‘Second biggest cause of disability’ in the world

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A recent report in PLOS Medicine compared clinical depression with more than 200 other diseases and found that depression was the second biggest cause of disability worldwide after only back pain. The World Health Organization has recently launched an action plan to raise awareness among policy-makers.