Psychosis in Migrants: The Striking Example of African-Caribbeans Resident in England

作者: R. M. Murray , G. Hutchinson

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-47076-9_8

关键词: PopulationMigrant populationDiseasePerinatal complicationsPsychosisPsychiatryHost countryMedicinePsychotic illness

摘要: The study of populations at unusually high or low risk a particular disease has long and productive history in medicine. These offer researchers the opportunity to seek causal protective factors which may be important not only population under examination but also more generally. It is for such reasons that epidemiologists are interested migrants.

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