|
Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > Psychotherapy
|
Buy Now
Primary Health Care and Psychiatric Epidemiology (Paperback)
Loot Price: R1,074
Discovery Miles 10 740
|
|
|
Primary Health Care and Psychiatric Epidemiology (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Psychiatry
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
In the years prior to publication, primary health care had been
gaining in significance as a setting both for research on mental
illness in the general population and for the development of new
preventive approaches in this field. The growing need for research
had received impetus from the escalating costs of hospital-based
health care, the re-structuring of health services in a number of
countries, with an increased emphasis on community care and
prevention, and the World Health Organization's 'Health for All'
campaign, in response to which a growing number of national
planning documents had been published. These developments had
already stimulated a new interest in the scope for epidemiological
and evaluative investigations based on general medical practice.
This book, originally published in 1992, consists of selected
contributions to the first international scientific meeting on this
topic, held in Toronto in 1989. It is made up of five sections,
dealing respectively with: the growth and development of a new
research field; findings of psychiatric surveys in general practice
in a number of different countries; specialist and generalist
medical care for mental illness - issues of selection and referral;
and specialist aspects of late-life mental disorders encountered in
such research. The inclusion of reports from groups of workers in
the USA, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Italy, Finland,
Canada, Australia and other countries testifies to the rapid spread
of interest in these questions. With the exception of the first two
chapters, which sketch the background of public-health and
general-practice epidemiology, all the contributions are focused on
general practice as a field laboratory for study of the occurrence,
distribution, diagnostic composition and risk factors of
psychiatric illness in unselected populations, and present data,
largely unpublished, from the authors' own projects. These findings
confirm the importance of research in general practice as a major
growing-point of social psychiatry and provide guidelines for
further progress in the years ahead. This book will still be an
invaluable source of reference to all psychiatrists, psychologists,
general practitioners and health care professionals concerned with
mental disorders in the wider community.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
