title: [Statistical study of mental disorders in New Caledonia].
abstract: 315 patients admitted to the psychiatric hospital of Nouville, New-Caledonia, during the year 1987, are examined. There are several ethnies: Melanesians, Europeans, Wallisians. Europeans are admitted for depression, suicide and neurotic troubles. On the contrary Melanesians and Wallisians are admitted for acute and chronic psychotic troubles above all. Maniac-depressive illness exists in every ethny. There are a lot of psychopathological hypothesis. Indigenous medicine of Melanesians in New-Caledonia has a great part in the distribution of diagnostics.
authors.affiliation: Clinique des Universités, Hôpital de Sainte-Marguerite, Marseille.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Poinso
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vedié
mesh_terms: D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D009510:New Caledonia / Q000453:epidemiology
vernacular_title: Etude statistique des maladies mentales en Nouvelle-Calédonie.