title: Research methods in psychiatric epidemiology: an overview.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To provide an introduction to the concepts and methods of psychiatric epidemiology for non-specialist readers.
  
  
  METHODS
  An overview of concepts and research procedures based on the published literature.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Psychiatric epidemiology is a key mental health discipline that has adopted and developed a variety of methods and procedures for the study of complex mental disorders. In its future development, psychiatric epidemiology is likely to seek an integration of the conceptual and methodological advances of molecular biology and neuroscience within the population-based and social framework of epidemiology as a basic science of public health.
authors.affiliation: The University of Western Australia, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Science, Perth WA 6000, Australia. assen@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
authors.forename: Assen
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jablensky
mesh_terms: D015340:Epidemiologic Research Design; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*