Recovery from schizophrenia an international perspective--results from the WHO-coordinated international study of schizophrenia (ISoS)

In the late 1960's, 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 pat...

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Otros Autores: Hopper, Kim (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press 2007.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Oxford scholarship online.
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Sumario:In the late 1960's, 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 1990's, the International Study of Schizophrenia (ISoS) set out to relocate those subjects and to determine
Notas:Previously issued in print: 2007.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (391 p.)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780197708491
9781280846885
9780195345490
9781429459488