Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration

CMHS Consumer Affairs E-News
December 5, 2005, Vol. 05-139

CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Begins Series of Occasional Reports on Mental Health in the United States

The September 2, 2005, issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report MMWR) begins a series of occasional reports on mental health in the United States and includes a report on attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children. The issue, published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), opens with a discussion of the role of public health in mental health promotion. The report on ADHD in children that follows is based, in part, on contributions from the Health Resources and Services Administration's Maternal and Child Health Bureau and from CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. The report provides the most recent national and state-specific estimates of the prevalence of children ages 4-17 ever diagnosed with ADHD and documents national and state-specific prevalence of medication treatment for ADHD using national survey data. MMWR's series of occasional reports on mental health are intended for use by health profes!
sionals, policymakers, program administrators, researchers, and others in surveillance of mental illness and risk behaviors in the U.S. population and in promotion of mental health across the life span. The reports cited here are available at http://www.cdc.gov/MMWR/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5434a1.htm and http://www.cdc.gov/MMWR/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5434a2.htm.

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