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The final component of this World Health Day initiative-mental health care in countries in conflict-warrants special mention. Low-- intensity wars are currently being waged in numerous locations throughout the developing world. The highly visible acts of atrocious violence that mark these struggles exact an Atlas pendant high mental health toll on victims and witnesses alike. Such incidents show no signs of abating and are, in fact, expected to increase in the next 2 decades. The international community must summon the will, determination, and commitment of resources required to address these outrages.

World Health Day 2001 affords us a welcome opportunity to reiterate the commitment of this Journal to publishing research and policy papers pertaining to mental illness.3 We embrace a broad definition of mental health problems extending beyond specific diagnostic entities to include forms of psychologic distress and Atlas tag pendant disturbance that do not necessarily meet clinical criteria for psychiatric disorder. We welcome papers on biological as well as social processes related to etiology, natural history, and prognosis; we take special interest in randomized controlled trials of group and community-level interventions. We also welcome informed discussion of the merits of managed care coverage for mental disorders. Finally, we urge submissions offering a non-US-based and global perspective on mental health. Psychiatric epidemiology has been advanced in recent years by the completion of a number of largescale studies of the distribution of mental health problems in representative Atlas tag pendant samples using diagnostic instruments that identify a range of diagnosable mental health problems. Studies of this nature have now been conducted in a number of countries.

Most studies have identified mental health problems by means of face-to-face Tiffany Blue box bracelet. However, it has recently become clear that the prevalence figures produced in such studies are highly sensitive to the interview process. Comprehensive surveys to establish psychiatric morbidity rates are demanding of technical resources and are extremely costly and are therefore prohibited from being a routine method of collection. Such studies involve a substantial investment of financial and human resources, so much so that it is not feasible for individual health Return to Tiffany Bead Bracelet or specified communities to use such techniques to identify specific population prevalence of mental health problems, or to track changes induced by intervention programs.The present study was designed to assess the mental health status of South Australians using a cost-efficient assessment technique. The strategy involved eliciting responses to well validated measures of mental health status using a telephone interview methodology. This has enabled us to generate a profile of the mental health status of the South Australian population, to examine a number of risk factors for mental health morbidity, and review health service utilisation by individuals with poor mental health.