Recovery from schizophrenia an international perspective--results from the WHO-coordinated international study of schizophrenia (ISoS)
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 pat...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press
2007.
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Edición: | 1st ed |
Colección: | Oxford scholarship online.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798093706719 |
Sumario: | 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 |
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Notas: | Previously issued in print: 2007. |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (391 p.) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9780197708491 9781280846885 9780195345490 9781429459488 |