Many people deserve credit for the work presented in this report, which was prepared by the public health team in the OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs. The production of this report benefited greatly from the inputs and comments received from national experts, member states representatives and other stakeholders.
Special thanks go to Marianne Takki, Yvette Azzopardi and Stefan Craenen (European Commission) who followed the development of the project since its conceptualisation and provided inputs throughout. The authors would also like to thank the following individuals and organisations who provided input on selected chapters:
Marit Knapstad and Robert Smith from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Trond Asmussen from the Norwegian Resource Centre for Community Mental Health (NAPHA) and Anette Jørve Ingjer from the Norwegian Directorate of Health (Chapter 3)
Pia Hauck, Katharina Schnitzspahn and Simge Çelik Stojanovic from the European Alliance Against Depression (EAAD) (Chapter 4)
Magdalena Chrzan-Dętkoś from the University of Gdańsk (Chapter 5)
Sandrine Broussouloux from the French National Public Health Agency (Chapter 6)
Sarah Morsink from Belgium’s Federal Department of Public Health (Chapter 7)
Alexander Grabenhofer-Eggerth from the Austrian National Public Health Institute (Chapter 8)
Therese van Amelsvoort, Sophie Leijdesdorff and Anouk Boonstra from Maastricht University, Department of Psychiatry & Neuropsychology (Chapter 10)
The team #To sem jaz from the Slovenian National Institute of Public Health and Tamara Arh from Ministry of Health of Slovenia (Chapter 11)
Kaija Appelqvist-Schmidlechner from the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, and Mikko Salasuo from Icehearts Finland (Chapter 12)
Preliminary versions of the summary chapter and selected case studies were presented, discussed, and submitted for written review at the 2024 meeting of the OECD Expert Group on the Economics of Public Health (EGEPH), chaired by Joanna Głażewska. The draft final report was presented, discussed and submitted for written review at the 2025 June meeting of the OECD Health Committee, chaired by Chris Mullin. The authors would like to thank all countries and stakeholders who provided feedback following these meetings, which greatly helped finalising the present report.
The work was funded through regular contributions from OECD Member countries and received support from the Health Programme of the European Commission.
The opinions expressed and arguments employed herein do not necessarily reflect the official views of the OECD Member countries or the European Union.