title: Psychiatric epidemiology and international mental health as a career in cultural psychiatry.
abstract: Psychiatric epidemiology is one of the many paths to a career in cultural psychiatry. Psychiatric epidemiology has made numerous substantive contributions to cultural psychiatry. Areas in which psychiatric epidemiologists have contributed to cultural psychiatry include the undertaking of cross-national comparisons, studying the mental health of populations of importance to cultural psychiatry, studying risk factors that are of cultural importance such as immigration and social class, studying trauma, examining the role of stigma in cultural settings, and investigating cultural influences on mental health service delivery. This article highlights examples from the author's own research examining cross-national comparisons, trauma, and mental health service delivery. Research is vital to enable the field of cultural psychiatry to be a vibrant, evidence-based discipline within psychiatry.
authors.affiliation: Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Miriam Hospital, 164 Summit Ave., Providence, RI 02906, USA. Robert_Kohn@brown.edu
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kohn
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D002321:Career Choice; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000523:psychology; D005008:Ethnopsychology / Q000639:trends; D005544:Forecasting; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000639:trends; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D010819:Physician's Role / Q000523:psychology; D012106:Research; D012307:Risk Factors; D012923:Social Class; D057545:Social Stigma; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology