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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961308403321

Titolo

Recovery from schizophrenia : an international perspective : a report from the WHO callaborative project,the international study of schizophrenia. / / edited by Kim Hopper [and others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-770849-8

1-280-84688-7

0-19-534549-5

1-4294-5948-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (391 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

362.2/6

Soggetti

Schizophrenia - Epidemiology

Schizophrenia - therapy

Follow-Up Studies

International Cooperation

Treatment Outcome

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2007.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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