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Recovery from Schizophrenia - An international perspective - A report from the WHO Collaborative Project, The International Study of Schizophrenia (Hardcover, New)
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Recovery from Schizophrenia - An international perspective - A report from the WHO Collaborative Project, The International Study of Schizophrenia (Hardcover, New)
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In the late 1960s, the World Health Organization initiated a series
of international studies of the incidence, characteristics, course,
and consequences of schizophrenia. Those studies - the largest ever
in the history of psychiatry - provided important data about the
disorder in groups of patients living in different countries and
cultures, and first focused attention on the differences in
short-term prognosis for schizophrenia between the third world and
industrialized countries. In the 1990s, the International Study of
Schizophrenia (ISoS) set out to relocate those subjects and to
determine their clinical and social status some 15 to 25 years
later.
Recovery from Schizophrenia is a comprehensive account of what
ISoS found, reporting follow-up results for over 1000 subjects
examined in the earlier WHO studies (and in several local studies
as well). The body of this volume consists of detailed descriptions
of the long-term course and outcome of schizophrenia, together with
portraits of the field research sites in 14 countries. Introductory
and synoptic chapters lay out the origin and design of the WHO
studies culminating in ISoS, and synthesize the study's main
findings. ISoS shows that, with appropriate treatment,
schizophrenia has a favorable outcome for a substantial portion of
those afflicted. The surprising finding of the short-term follow-up
studies - that outcome was better in the developing than in the
developed countries - is confirmed here for long-term course. Yet
while prognosis continues to favor subjects in developing
countries, the varied outcomes for those in developed nations still
offers ample reason for hope.
This book is the first of its kind. The massivemultinational
investigations upon which it is based are unique in psychiatry and
cross-cultural epidemiology. Recovery from Schizophrenia will be a
valuable resource for researchers, epidemiologists, policymakers,
and mental health professionals worldwide, providing evidence that
supports investment in the care of persons with schizophrenia.
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