PREVALENCE OF DISORDERS AND EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS

Authors
MORTENSEN PB
Citation
Pb. Mortensen, PREVALENCE OF DISORDERS AND EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS, Current opinion in psychiatry, 11(2), 1998, pp. 169-173
Citations number
83
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry
Journal title
Current opinion in psychiatry → ACNP
ISSN journal
09517367
Volume
11
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
169 - 173
Database
ISI
SICI code
0951-7367(1998)11:2<169:PODAEM>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
The studies of the occurrence of mental disorders include general popu lation prevalence studies, but increasingly include epidemiological st udies of risk factors for psychiatric illness. An important developmen t is a beginning integration of genetic and environmental risk factors , as well as prevalence studies outside North America and Western Euro pe. (C) 1998 Rapid Science Ltd.