Author: Michael R. Von Korff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521199599
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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The World Mental Health Surveys were established by the World Health Organization in 2000 to provide valuable information for physicians and health policy planners. These surveys have shed light on the prevalence, correlates, burden, and treatment of mental disorders in countries throughout the world. This volume focuses on the epidemiology of coexisting physical and mental illness around the world. This book includes surveys from 17 discrete countries on six continents, covering epidemiology, risk factors, consequences, and implications for research, clinical work, and policy. Many physical and mental illnesses share a relationship with one another and often occur simultaneously. Clinicians from the disciplines of both psychiatry and medicine are increasingly faced with both challenges on a daily basis, making this an ideal book for a wide range of health professionals. This is the first book devoted to this topic on such a wide-ranging scale.
Author: Graham Thornicroft
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019956549X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Community mental health care has evolved as a discipline over the past 50 years, and within the past 20 years, there have been major developments across the world. The Oxford Textbook of Community Mental Health is the most comprehensive and authoritative review published in the field, written by an international and interdisciplinary team.
Author: Ronald C. Kessler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521294881
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Mental disorders have profound social, cultural, and economic effects throughout the world. Although most psychiatry and psychology texts provide some basic data on the prevalence and treatment of mental disorders, no previous book has ever presented such data with the breadth or depth of the current volume. Reported here are the first results of the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative, the largest coordinated series of cross-national psychiatric epidemiological surveys ever undertaken. The general population surveys in the WMH series span 17 countries in all parts of the world. In many of these countries the WMH surveys provide the first community epidemiological data ever available on mental disorders in the population. The detailed information on lifetime prevalence, age of onset, course, correlates, and treatment of mental disorders in this volume provides mental health professionals and healthcare policy planners with an unprecedented state-of-the-art reference on the cross-national descriptive epidemiology of mental disorders.
Author: Jordi Alonso
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107019281
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 333
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The largest and most comprehensive assessment of the burden of disease associated with common mental disorders worldwide.
Author: Evelyn J. Bromet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107059690
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 359
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The first systematic analysis of the rates, risk factors, consequences and global burden of trauma and PTSD across the globe.
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9241514019
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Collects together data compiled from 177 World Health Organization Member States/Countries on mental health care. Coverage includes policies, plans and laws for mental health, human and financial resources available, what types of facilities providing care, and mental health programmes for prevention and promotion.
Author: Matthew K. Nock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521765005
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 407
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Presents a unique global perspective on suicidal behaviors using new data collected in 21 countries on 6 continents.
Author: Kate M. Scott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110854830X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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This unique book presents original research from the largest cross-national survey of the epidemiology of mental disorders ever conducted. It provides the latest findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys based on interviews of nearly 150,000 individuals in twenty-six countries on six continents. The book is ordered by specific disorder, with individual chapters dedicated to presenting detailed findings on the prevalence, onset timing, sociodemographic profile, comorbidity, associated impairment and treatment for eighteen mental disorders. There is also discussion of important cross-national consistencies in the epidemiology of mental disorders and highlighting of intriguing patterns of cross-national variation. This is one of the most comprehensive summaries of the epidemiology of mental disorders ever published, making this an invaluable resource for researchers, clinicians, students and policy-makers in the fields of mental and public health.
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9788185040608
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Clifford Whittingham Beers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mental illness
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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