ABSTRACT
First published in 1989, Epidemiology and the Prevention of Mental Disorders examines the research undertaken into the methods for studying the occurrence of mental illness in populations during the twenty years prior to publication.
The book explores the incidence and distribution of conditions such as schizophrenia, depression, alcoholism, addiction, and dementia across populations, and the risk factors with which they are associated. Taking a public health approach to the prevention of mental illness, the book reports on epidemiological research in psychiatry, emphasising its use in preventative terms, and making connections between its use in psychiatry and its use in other fields of medicine. It also comments on the development of psychiatric epidemiology as a public health discipline and draws attention to the implications of contemporary changes to biological and social environments on mental health.
Epidemiology and the Prevention of Mental Disorders will appeal to those with an interest in the history of psychiatric epidemiology and mental health.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part one|55 pages
Prevention in psychiatry: goals, strategies, constraints
part two|71 pages
Towards earlier detection: case-finding and diagnosis
chapter Chapter four|18 pages
Incidence of dementing illness among persons aged over 65 years in an urban population
chapter Chapter five|17 pages
Cognitive function and other indices of dementia in a rural elderly female population: preliminary findings
chapter Chapter six|14 pages
The Munich Alcoholism Test (MALT) as a diagnostic instrument in primary and secondary prevention of alcoholism
chapter Chapter seven|20 pages
Conceptual and methodological problems in estimation of the incidence of mental disorders from field survey data
part three|75 pages
Identifying and assessing risk factors of mental disorders
chapter Chapter eleven|15 pages
Risk factors for AIDS-related bereavement in a cohort of homosexual men in New York City
part four|48 pages
Finding ways to protect vulnerable groups and individuals
chapter Chapter fourteen|21 pages
Implications of a vulnerability model for the prevention of affective disorder
chapter Chapter fifteen|12 pages
Unravelling the causes of homelessness – and of its association with mental illness
chapter Chapter sixteen|13 pages
The effects of research interviews on depressive symptoms in the six weeks following reproductive loss
part five|66 pages
Preventive action in mental health and other medical services
chapter Chapter seventeen|17 pages
Multi-level approaches to the prevention of mental disorders in the community: the Athenian experience
part six|42 pages
Promoting healthier public policies