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Overview

Somnath Chatterji is affiliated with the World Health Organization in Switzerland and has a strong research presence in the field of medicine. Their work spans a range of subfields including health, social psychology, general health professions, epidemiology, and economics and econometrics.

Chatterji's research focuses on major topics such as health disparities and outcomes, mental health treatment and access, global maternal and child health, health systems and economic evaluations related to quality of life, global health care issues, child nutrition and water access, and migration, health, and trauma.

Their recent notable publications include:

  • Global estimates of the need for rehabilitation based on the Global Burden of Disease study 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019, 2020, The Lancet
  • The WHO estimates of excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, 2022, Nature
  • A call for standardised age-disaggregated health data, 2021, The Lancet Healthy Longevity
  • Keeping an eye on eye care: monitoring progress towards effective coverage, 2021, The Lancet Global Health
  • Development of a common scale for measuring healthy ageing across the world: results from the ATHLOS consortium, 2020, International Journal of Epidemiology

Frequent collaborators include Josep María Haro, Ronald C. Kessler, Jordi Alonso, Fernando Navarro-Mateu, and José Luís Ayuso-Mateos. Chatterji's publications often appear in journals such as Archives of Public Health, International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, BMC Psychiatry, The Journal of Headache and Pain, and Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

Best Publications

  • Depression, chronic diseases, and decrements in health: results from the World Health Surveys

    Saba Moussavi;Somnath Chatterji;Emese Verdes;Ajay Tandon

  • Prevalence, severity, and unmet need for treatment of mental disorders in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys.

    Demyttenaere K;Bruffaerts R;Posada-Villa J;Gasquet I

  • Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of mental disorders in the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative.

    Ronald C Kessler;Matthias Angermeyer;James C Anthony;Ron De Graaf

  • Childhood adversities and adult psychopathology in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

    Ronald C. Kessler;Katie A. McLaughlin;Jennifer Greif Green;Michael J. Gruber

  • Global burden of depressive disorders in the year 2000

    T. B. Üstün;J. L. Ayuso-Mateos;S. Chatterji;C. Mathers

  • The global burden of mental disorders : An update from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys

    Ronald C. Kessler;Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola;Jordi Alonso;Somnath Chatterji

  • Developing the World Health Organization disability assessment schedule 2.0

    T Bedirhan Üstün;Somnath Chatterji;Nenad Kostanjsek;Jürgen Rehm

  • Global estimates of the need for rehabilitation based on the Global Burden of Disease study 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Alarcos Cieza;Kate Causey;Kaloyan Kamenov;Sarah Wulf Hanson

  • ICF linking rules: an update based on lessons learned.

    Alarcos Cieza;Szilvia Geyh;Somnath Chatterji;Nenad Kostanjsek

  • Measuring health and disability : manual for WHO Disability Assessment Schedule : WHODAS 2.0

    T. B. Üstün;N. Kostanjsek;S. Chatterji;J. Rehm

  • Searching for an Operational Definition of Frailty: A Delphi Method Based Consensus Statement. The Frailty Operative Definition-Consensus Conference Project

    Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas;Catherine Féart;Catherine Féart;Giovanni Mann;Jose Viña

  • Models of disablement, universalism and the international classification of impairments, disabilities and handicaps.

    Jerome E Bickenbach;Somnath Chatterji;E.M Badley;T.B Üstün

  • Linking health-status measurements to the international classification of functioning, disability and health.

    Alarcos Cieza;Thomas Brockow;Thomas Ewert;Edda Amman

  • Undertreatment of people with major depressive disorder in 21 countries

    Graham Thornicroft;Somnath Chatterji;Sara Evans-Lacko;Michael Gruber

  • Health, functioning, and disability in older adults—present status and future implications

    Somnath Chatterji;Julie Byles;David Cutler;Teresa Seeman

  • The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health: a new tool for understanding disability and health

    T.B. Üstün;S. Chatterji;J. Bickenbach;N. Kostanjsek

  • Delay and failure in treatment seeking after first onset of mental disorders in the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative.

    Philip S Wang;Matthias C Angermeyer;Guilherme Borges;Ronny Bruffaerts

  • Worldwide Variability in Physical Inactivity : A 51-Country Survey

    Regina Guthold;Tomoko Ono;Kathleen L. Strong;Somnath Chatterji

  • Depression, chronic diseases, and decrements in health : results from the world health surveys. Commentary

    Gavin Andrews;Nickolai Titov;Saba Moussavi;Somnath Chatterji

  • Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of mental disorders in the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative RESEARCH REPORT

    Ronald C. Kessler;Matthias Angermeyer;James C. Anthony;Ron De Graaf

Frequent Co-Authors

José Luis Ayuso-Mateos
José Luis Ayuso-Mateos Autonomous University of Madrid
Josep Maria Haro
Josep Maria Haro University of Barcelona
Ronald C. Kessler
Ronald C. Kessler Harvard University
Matilde Leonardi
Matilde Leonardi Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta
Jordi Alonso
Jordi Alonso Pompeu Fabra University
Marta Miret
Marta Miret Autonomous University of Madrid
Alarcos Cieza
Alarcos Cieza World Health Organization
Oye Gureje
Oye Gureje University of Ibadan
Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola
Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola University of California, Davis
Seppo Koskinen
Seppo Koskinen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

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