The Epidemiology of Schizophrenia in Papua New Guinea

Torrey, E. Fuller; Torrey, Barbara Boyle; Burton-Bradley, Burton G.

doi:10.1176/ajp.131.5.567

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“…It must be noted, however, that these other studies are mostly point prevalences compared to our ageadjusted estimates. Given this caveat, our rates are higher than reported prevalences in other small-scale societies such as the indigenes of Taiwan with a prevalence decrease from 22 to 14 over a generation (Rin & Lin, 1962;Lin et al 1989), rural Sri Lanka (Jayasundera, 1969), Tonga (Murphy & Taumoepeau, 1980), and Papua New Guinea (Torrey et al 1974). However, when compared with the point prevalences from the WHO 10-country study (Jablensky et al 1992), our rates of broadly defined schizophrenia (approximately 100) fall within the reported WHO range of 50 (Honolulu) to 172 (Chandigarh), while our narrow ICD prevalences (42) also fall within the WHO study range of 26 (Honolulu) to 54 (Nottingham), with our DSM and RDC rates being higher.…”

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Rates of treated schizophrenia and its clinical and cultural features in the population isolate of the Iban of Sarawak: a tri-diagnostic approach

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The right to post the definitive version of the contribution as published at Cambridge Journals Online (in PDF or HTML form) in the Institutional Repository of the institution in which they worked at the time the paper was first submitted, or (for appropriate journals) in PubMed Central or UK PubMed Central, no sooner than one year after first publication of the paper in the journal, subject to file availability and provided the posting includes a prominent statement of the full bibliographical details, a copyright notice in the name of the copyright holder (Cambridge University Press or the sponsoring Society, as appropriate), and a link to the online edition of the journal at Cambridge Journals Online. Inclusion of this definitive version after one year in Institutional Repositories outside of the institution in which the contributor worked at the time the paper was first submitted will be subject to the additional permission of Cambridge University Press (not to be unreasonably withheld). th May 2011Rates of treated schizophrenia and its clinical and cultural features in the population isolate of the Iban of Sarawak: a tri-diagnostic approach R O B E R T B A R R E T T, P E T E R L O A, E D W A R D J E R A H, D E R E K N ABSTRACTBackground. We present results of a study of treated rates of schizophrenia among the Iban of Sarawak, Malaysia. Most Iban live in longhouses, each comprising a kindred group of up to 300 individuals. Cultural practices such as minimal intermarriage with members of adjacent ethnic groups and in-depth genealogical knowledge make them a population suitable for genetic investigation. Iban culture is conducive to a focus on symptoms and illness, and to patterns of treatmentseeking behaviour that are enthusiastic and persistent.

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Rates of treated schizophrenia and its clinical and cultural features in the population isolate of the Iban of Sarawak: a tri-diagnostic approach

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“…The significance of these negative findings is difficult to assess in the light of suggestions (for example, the Papua New Guinea study -Torrey et al, 1974) that the risk for schizophrenia is increased for those rare populations where 'Westernization' interrupts a pre-existing relative cultural isolation.…”

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Culture and schizophrenia

Jablensky¹,

Sartorius²

1975

Psychol. Med.

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•This editorial is a shortened version of a contribution to a symposium on the biological and behavioural aspects of schizophrenia that was organized by the Interdisciplinary Society of Biological Psychiatry, and held in Amsterdam, 13 September 1974. A full account of the proceedings will be published by De Erven Bohn Publishers, Amsterdam. We are grateful to them and to the editor, Professor Herman M. van Praag, for permission to publish this paper.

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“…В этой местности про-цент людей с антителами к Toxoplasma gondii со-ставлял 2% и менее. Исследования, проведенные в 1973 году, оценили распространенность шизоф-рении в этой области как одну из самых низких в мире [23,26].…”

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