Depression & Costs of Health Care

The difference between health care for individuals who are depressed compared to those who are not varies greatly; those with depression have a higher per- patient annual non-mental health costs than patients without depression. Studies outlined that global disease burden will be more than half of the global population in 2020. This is a standing issue as health care for global diseases is highly expensive.
This article from July 2009 conducts an experiment on the association between depression and cost of non-mental health care in eleven chronic comorbid diseases. Results showed that depressed patients had more costs than . . .