Concept information
Preferred term
psychiatric epidemiology
Definition
- Psychiatric epidemiology is the study of distribution, determinants, and causes of psychiatric conditions or mental health in human populations. The term psychiatric epidemiology was first coined at the 1949 Annual Conference of the Milbank Memorial Fund and was later documented in a Milbank Memorial Fund publication in 1950. [Source: Encyclopedia of Epidemiology; Psychiatric Epidemiology]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/psychiatric_epidemiology
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