Conceptual and Methodological Considerations in Comorbidity

Psychiatric Diagnosis: Challenges and Prospects

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 187-196

  Salloum, Ihsan M ^a,b   Mezzich, Juan E ^b,c   Cordoba, Sandra E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b International College of Person Centered Medicine   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical comorbidities, defining realities of clinical care; Community oriented and comprehensive approach, key to addressing complexities of clinical comorbidities; Comorbidity 'any distinct additional clinical entity'; Comorbidity of mental illness, including any combination of different health related problems; Conceptual and methodological considerations in comorbidity; Latency model, emphasizing independent effects of discrete events; Person centred integrative diagnosis and care; Polygenic disorders, resulting from interaction of multiple common responsible genes; Vulnerability factors, involving constellation of genetic susceptibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952777689     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470743485.ch19     Document Type: Chapter

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