Table 1.
District-level sociodemographic and epidemiological characteristics
| Sodo district (Ethiopia) |
Sehore district (India) |
Chitwan district (Nepal) |
Kenneth Kaunda district (South Africa) |
Kamuli district (Uganda) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population, n | 165000 | 1311 008 | 566 661 | 796 823 | 428 500 |
| Living rurally, % | 90 | 81 | 73 | 14 | 97 |
| Literacy rate, % | 22 | 71 | 70 | 88 | 62 |
| Health spend per capita (nationally, US$)a | 7 | 29 | 17 | 425 | 24 |
| Cases, n (% population in need)b | |||||
| Depression | 1615 (1.0) | 19423 (1.5) | 8126 (1.4) | 15931 (2.3) | 3879 (0.9) |
| Psychosis | 481 (0.3) | 4679 (0.4) | 1881 (0.3) | 2533 (0.4) | 1114 (0.3) |
| Epilepsy | 2342 (1.4) | – | 3418 (0.6) | – | 6114 (1.4) |
| Alcohol use disorders | 8379 (5.1) | 7525 (0.6) | 3006 (0.5) | 13851 (2.0) | 19205 (4.5) |
a.
Source: World Health Organization (WHO) National Health Accounts database (www.who.int/nha/country/en/).
b.
Source: WHO Global Burden of Disease database (www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/en/).