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

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (391 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.2/6
• Soggetto topico: Schizophrenia - Epidemiology; Psychoses
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: HopperKim
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Recovery from schizophrenia
• ISBN: 1-280-84688-7; 0-19-534549-5; 1-4294-5948-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458359303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II