Psychiatric Epidemiology - Ezra Susser, Sharon Schwartz, Alfredo Morabia, Evelyn Bromet

Psychiatric Epidemiology

Searching for the Causes of Mental Disorders
Buch | Hardcover
544 Seiten
2006
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-510181-2 (ISBN)
123,45 inkl. MwSt
Tracing the brief history of psychiatric epidemiology, this book describes the study of risk factors as causes of mental disorders. It also discusses approaches to investigation of biologic, genetic, or social causes, and is useful for clinical researchers, public health practitioners, or psychiatric epidemiologists-in-training.
Searching for the causes of mental disorders is as exciting as it is complex. The relationship between pathophysiology and its overt manifestations is exceedingly intricate, and often the causes of a disorder are elusive at best. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone trying to track these causes, whether they be clinical researchers, public health practitioners, or psychiatric epidemiologists-in-training. Uniting theory and practice in very clear language, it makes a wonderful contribution to both epidemiologic and psychiatric research. Rather than attempting to review the descriptive epidemiology of mental disorders, this book gives a much more dynamic exposition of the thinking and techniques used to establish it.

Starting out by tracing the brief history of psychiatric epidemiology, the book describes the study of risk factors as causes of mental disorders. Subsequent sections discuss approaches to investigation of biologic, genetic or social causes and the statistical analysis of study results. The book concludes by following some of the problems involved in the search for genetic causes of mental disorders, and more complex causal relationships.

PART I PSYCHIATRIC EPIDEMIOLOGY, THEN AND NOW; PART II RISK FACTORS AS CAUSES OF MENTAL DISORDERS; PART III COHORT DESIGNS IN PSYCHIATRIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; PART IV CASE-CONTROL DESIGNS IN PSYCHIATRIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; PART V CASE-CONTROL DESIGNS IN BIOLOGIC PSYCHIATRY; PART VI ANALYZING THE DATA; PART VII THE SEARCH FOR GENETIC CAUSES OF MENTAL DISORDERS; PART VIII COMPLEX CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS

Erscheint lt. Verlag 6.7.2006
Reihe/Serie Oxford Psychiatry Series
Zusatzinfo 5 halftones, 21 line illustrations, tables
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 254 x 178 mm
Gewicht 1086 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Klinische Psychologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sozialpädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-19-510181-2 / 0195101812
ISBN-13 978-0-19-510181-2 / 9780195101812
Zustand Neuware
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