The Middle East and North Africa suffer the world’s highest depression rates
Posted Updated 
From Baghdad To New York Blogs
By
1 min read
The Middle East and North Africa suffer the world’s highest depression rates, according to a new study by researchers at Australia’s University of Queensland – and it’s costing people in the region years off their lives
Iraq seems like at low rate of the equation because , researchers didn’t go out and test everyone for clinical depression; rather, they used preexisting data. That means we’re not looking at rates of clinical depression exactly, so much as the rate at which people are diagnosed with clinical depression
This post is licensed under CC BY 4.0 by the author.