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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458359303321

Titolo

Recovery from schizophrenia [[electronic resource] ] : an international perspective--results from the WHO-coordinated international study of schizophrenia (ISoS) / / edited by Kim Hopper ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-280-84688-7

0-19-534549-5

1-4294-5948-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (391 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HopperKim

Disciplina

362.2/6

Soggetti

Schizophrenia - Epidemiology

Psychoses

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; PART I: BACKGROUND; PART II: FINDINGS; PART III: THE CENTERS; APPENDICES: TABULAR MATERIAL; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the late 1960's, the World Health Organization initiated a series of international studies of the incidence, characteristics, course, and consequences of schizophrenia. Those studies - the largest ever in the history of psychiatry - provided important data about the disorder in groups of patients living in different countries and cultures, and first focused attention on the differences in short-term prognosis for schizophrenia between the third world and industrialized countries. In the 1990's, the International Study of Schizophrenia (ISoS) set out to relocate those subjects and to determine