Epidemiology of Mental Disorders: Emerging Trends in the United States

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1978, Pages 705-712

  Weissman, Myrna M ^a   Klerman, Gerald L ^b,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Alcohol Drug Abuse Mental Health Administration ^*  (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MENTAL HEALTH;

EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FORECASTING; HUMAN; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; PSYCHIATRY; RESEARCH; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0018127837     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1978.01770300047005     Document Type: Article

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