A Discussion of the Concepts of Incidence and Prevalence as Related to Epidemiologic Studies of Mental Disorders

摘要: This paper gives an opportunity to acquaint epidemiologists with some of the characteristics morbidity data on mentally ill and challenging research problems that this field presents. Because complex nature problem, epidemiologic mental disorders is bringing into public health professional personnel from such disciplines as psychiatry, psychology, sociology, anthropology, psychiatric social work. For most part, persons trained in these professions have not been exposed philosophy underlying approach study disease statistical methods used studies. paper, therefore, will also give