A practical handbook of psychiatric epidemiology /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Description:	xii, 414 p. ; 24cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford medical publications
Subject:	Psychiatric epidemiology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. Epidemiologic Methods -- Handbooks. Mental Disorders -- epidemiology -- Handbooks. Mental Disorders -- etiology -- Handbooks. Risk Factors -- Handbooks. Psychiatric epidemiology. Handbooks and manuals.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4932616

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Other authors / contributors:	Prince, Martin (Martin James), 1960-
ISBN:	0198515510 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Contributors
Section 1. Basic principles
1. The development of psychiatric epidemiology
2. Measurement in psychiatry
3. Cultural issues in measurement and research
4. Ethics and research in psychiatry
Section 2. Study design
5. Introduction to epidemiological study designs
6. Ecological and cross-level studies
7. Cross-sectional surveys
8. The case-control study
9. Cohort studies
10. Randomized controlled trials
11. Research synthesis: systematic reviews and meta-analysis
Section 3. Interpretation
12. Inference 1: chance, bias, and confounding
13. Inference 2: causation
14. Statistical methods in psychiatric epidemiology 1: a statistician's perspective
15. Statistical methods in psychiatric epidemiology 2: an epidemiologist's perspective
16. Critical appraisal
Section 4. Special topics
17. Genetic epidemiology 1: behavioural genetics
18. Genetic epidemiology 2: molecular genetics
19. Health economics for psychiatric epidemiology
20. Qualitative research
21. Psychiatric epidemiology-looking to the future
Index

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