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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association International Journal of Epidemiology 2014;43:365–406 The Author 2013; all rights reserved. Advance Access publication 23 December 2013 doi:10.1093/ije/dyt227 Cultural concepts of distress and psychiatric disorders: literature review and research recommendations for global mental health epidemiology 1 2 3 4 5 Brandon A Kohrt, * Andrew Rasmussen, Bonnie N Kaiser, Emily E Haroz, Sujen M Maharjan, Byamah B Mutamba,6 Joop TVM de Jong7 and Devon E Hinton8 1Duke Global Health Institute, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Durham, NC, USA, 2Department of Psychology, Fordham University, New York, USA, 3Department of Anthropology, Department of Epidemiology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA, 4Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, 5Department of Psychology, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Nepal, 6Butabika National Referral Mental and Teaching Hospital, Kampala, Uganda, 7AISSR, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and 8Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA *Corresponding author. Duke Global Health Institute, Trent Hall #213, 310 Trent Drive, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA. E-mail: brandon.kohrt@ Accepted 4 October 2013 Background Burgeoning global mental health endeavors have renewed debates about cultural applicability of psychiatric categories. This study’s goal is to review strengths and limitations of literature comparing psychia-