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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hopper, Kim, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World Health Organization.

Schizophrenia--Epidemiology.

Schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia--therapy.

Follow-Up Studies.

International Cooperation.

Treatment Outcome.

Medical Subjects:

World Health Organization.

Schizophrenia--therapy.

Follow-Up Studies.

International Cooperation.

Treatment Outcome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (391 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-770849-8

1-280-84688-7

0-19-534549-5

1-4294-5948-4

OCLC:

781262332