Vital statistics, demography, and schizophrenia: editor's introduction.
The Guest Editor introduces this Theme Issue of the Schizophrenia Bulletin with an overview of the kinds of subject matters appropriate for a comprehensive understanding of the vital statistics and demography relating to schizophrenia and schizophrenic patients--births, deaths, marriages, divorces, fertility, age, sex, race, occupation, place of residence, season of birth, class mobility, homelessness, criminality, industrialization, and suicide. Major sources of the statistics relating to schizophrenia are listed. He calls for a national case register and the use of a unique identifier with linkage across data bases in various branches of government so as to inform a descriptive as well as an experimental (hypothesis-testing) epidemiology.
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Dept. of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22903.
D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003710:Demography; D006801:Humans; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014481:United States; D014798:Vital Statistics