Versuch einer Geisteskrankenzählung in Thüringen

Brugger, Carl

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“…studies from diverse parts of the world have shown that the prevalence of psychoses varies only within narrow limits (Brugger (1931), Lin (1953), Dunham (1966), Dube (1971). Hence, in a developing country, an exercise in epidemiology primarily directed to determine the prevalence and aetiology of the psychoses would be superfluous and economically unjustified.…”

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Survey of psychiatric morbidity in a semi‐urban population in Sri Lanka

Wijesinghe

Dissanayake

Dassanayake

1978

Acta Psychiatr Scand

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This paper reports a survey of psychiatric morbidity in a semi-urban community (population 7,653) in Sri Lanka. The entire population was first screened by social workers using a standardized interview. Probable cases were then examined by psychiatrists. Each psychiatric disorder identified was rated on four different parameters of severity, and only those rating moderate or severe were labelled as cases. The socio-demographic characteristics of the cases and the population at risk, and the frequency and nature of psychiatric disorders are presented in Tables. The 6-month period prevalence for all psychiatric disorders was 45.5 per 1,000, with psychoses amounting to 6.9 (males 5.5; females 8.4) per 1,000, and neuroses to 25.2 (males 9.9; females 40.6) per 1,000. The large majority of disorders were chronic and had not received psychiatric treatment. The relevance of these surveys in the provision of psychiatric services in developing countries is discussed.

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Survey of psychiatric morbidity in a semi‐urban population in Sri Lanka

Wijesinghe

Dissanayake

Dassanayake

1978

Acta Psychiatr Scand

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“…In 1933 Klemperer introduced the birth register method, followed by Fremming (1951) and Helgason (1964). The census method was used by Lewis (1929), Brugger (1931Brugger ( , 1933bBrugger ( , 1938, Matthews et al (1937), Stromgren (1938), Lemkau et al (1941Lemkau et al ( , 1942aLemkau et al ( , b, 1943, Kaila (1942), Bremer (1951), Book (1953), and Essen-Moller (1956). A more detailed discussion on method, selection of proband material, and results of these studies is found in the monographs by Akesson (1961,1968), and Wallin (1974).…”

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Severe mental retardation in the county of Arhus, Denmark

Bernsen¹

1976

Acta Psychiatr Scand

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An epidemiological census investigation on severe mental retardation among children under 15 years were carried out on July 1, 1970, in the community of Aarhus. Case finding procedures are described in detail. One hundred and seventy-one severely retarded children were found in total population of 233,162 with 50,667 children under 15 years. The age-specific prevalence rate was 3.38 per 1,000. About 20% of the severely retarded children are not registered in the Danish National Mental Retardation Service when they reached school age. One third of the children are under residental care, but only half of these are in subnormality hospitals while the other half reside in waiting homes. Among 64% living at home, two thirds receive day-care or training. Comparisons are made especially with two other prevalence surveys, one covering the same area, and the other identical in methods.

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“…Some psychiatrists-E. 0. Lewis in Britain, Brugger in Germany, Rosanoff in the United States-affirmed their concern with public health aspects of their work by conducting large-scale community surveys (Lewis, 1929;Brugger, 1931;and Rosanoff, 1917); while others were led to the same field of study by an interest in genetics (Stromgren, 1950). In America statisticians like Malzberg and Pollock made use of data compiled in mental hospitals (Malzberg, 1940;Pollock, 1925), and sociologists of the Chicago school began to study the urban ecology of mental illness (Faris and Dunham, 1939;Robinson, 1950).…”

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