Psychiatric Morbidity in a London General Practice

摘要: This paper presents an account of morbidity in a suburban practice London with special reference to psychiatric disability. Clinical and administrative features this (Chalke Fisher, 1957) its social demographic characteristics (Stein, 1960) have also been described, outline the present investigation has presented elsewhere (Shepherd, Stein, Kessel, 1959). All registered National Health Service patients aged 15 years or over whose surnames began four randomly chosen letters (A, B, U, V) were surveyed for one year (March, 1956, February, 1957). These 911 adults represent about 10 per cent, are all included 20 sample described by Stein (1960).