Records of psychiatric morbidity in general practice: the National Morbidity Surveys
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Records of psychiatric morbidity in general practice: the National Morbidity Surveys.
Traditionally, epidemiologists have been concerned with counting the dead. Now, particularly when they are studying the natural history of psychiatric disorders, epidemiologists are putting more of their time and effort into the estimation of rates of incidence and prevalence of diseases and linking changes in these rates with environmental and genetic influences. What is the best way of obtain...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychological Medicine
سال: 1985
ISSN: 0033-2917,1469-8978
DOI: 10.1017/s0033291700023497