DESK REVIEWS | 07.01.03. Please provide the number of people who received a diagnostic assessment in the most recent year for which data are available

DESK REVIEW | 07.01.03. Please provide the number of people who received a diagnostic assessment in the most recent year for which data are available

Such information was not found.

There is no information available regarding the number of people who received a diagnostic assessment in the most recent year of a specific year. In year 2015-2016, about 28,000 people with dementia were receiving specialist care in Hospital Authority mainly provided by the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Medicine (Food and Health Bureau, 2017a). The number of diagnosis assessment provided by the private sector is not clear.

References:

Food and Health Bureau. (2017a). Mental Health Review Report.  Retrieved from https://www.fhb.gov.hk/download/press_and_publications/otherinfo/180500_mhr/e_mhr_full_report.pdf.

We have not been able to obtain published data on the number of diagnostic assessments.

No data was sourced due to a lack of data on dementia diagnosis rates and services in Jamaica.

Dementia cases are not routinely monitored in Kenya. According to a systematic analysis for the global burden of disease study involving 195 countries (including Kenya) in 2016, the number of prevalent cases for dementia in Kenya was 61,120 (Nichols et al., 2019).

References:

Nichols, E., Szoeke, C. E. I., Vollset, S. E., Abbasi, N., Abd-Allah, F., Abdela, J., … Murray, C. J. L. (2019). Global, regional, and national burden of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. The Lancet Neurology, 18(1), 88–106. http://doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(18)30403-4

No surveillance or descriptive data available on persons living with dementia in South Africa.