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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on October 3, 2008
American Journal of Epidemiology 2008 168(9):977-979; doi:10.1093/aje/kwn298
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American Journal of Epidemiology © 2008 The Authors
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Psychiatric Epidemiology: Reducing the Global Burden of Mental Illness

Stephen L. Buka

From the Epidemiology Section, Department of Community Health, Brown University, Providence, RI

Correspondence to Dr. Stephen L. Buka from the Epidemiology Section, Department of Community Health, Brown University, 121 South Main Street, Providence, RI 02912 (e-mail: sbuka@brown.edu).

Received for publication August 12, 2008. Accepted for publication August 25, 2008.

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Few areas of medicine have posed a greater challenge to the adoption of a population-level or epidemiologic approach than psychiatry. From the privacy required for many therapeutic methods to the complexity and seeming individuality of each patient, the history and nature of mental illness has often appeared antithetical to the epidemiologic method. At the same time, the prevalence, severity, and overall burden of morbidity and mortality represented by mental disorders reflects an urgent global public health concern ripe for the application of epidemiology. The gains realized through advances in psychiatric epidemiology over the past decade, the resulting potential of an empirically informed, population-oriented approach to reducing the global burden of mental illness, and major methodological challenges for the field are highlighted in the current issue of Epidemiologic Reviews, which accompanies this . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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