The Social Epidemiology of Mental Disorder

Principles of Social Psychiatry: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 89-101

  Kessler, Ronald C ^a   Wang, Philip S ^b   Wittchen, Hans Ulrich ^c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age of onset (AOO) distributions; Assessing mental disorders in epidemiological surveys; Comorbidity studies documenting separate internalizing and externalizing factors; Components of social world; Course of illness less studied in epidemiological surveys than prevalence; Prevalence of mental disorders estimates reported in community epidemiological survey; Social epidemiology of mental disorder; Societal costs of mental disorders; Treatment of mental disorders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886215386     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470684214.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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