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Estimating Needs for Mental Health Care

A Contribution of Epidemiology

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1979

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Editors:
  1. Heinz Häfner

    1. Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, J 5, Mannheim 1, Germany

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Table of contents (15 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Introduction

    1. Estimation of Needs by Epidemiological Instruments

      • H. Häfner
      Pages 1-17

  3. Morbidity, Needs, and Utilization: General Contributions

    1. Ideas in Psychiatric Epidemiology

      • J. K. Wing
      Pages 19-29

    2. Prospects for Epidemiological Research in Neurosis

      • H. Katschnig
      Pages 30-36

    3. Estimation of Need on the Basis of Field Survey Findings

      • E. Strömgren, E. Kyst, I. Ryberg, A. Weeke
      Pages 37-42

  4. Psychiatric Case Register as a Basis for Estimation and Monitoring of Needs

    1. Psychiatric Case Registers

      • A. Dupont
      Pages 43-51

    2. Estimation of Need on the Basis of Case Register Studies: British Case Register Data

      • T. Fryers
      Pages 52-63

    3. Estimation of Need on the Basis of Case Register Studies: Discussion

      • T. Helgason
      Pages 64-68

  5. Psychiatric Morbidity and Needs for Care in General Practice

    1. Psychiatric Morbidity in General Practice in a West German City

      • A. Zintl-Wiegand, B. Cooper
      Pages 69-79

    2. Psychiatric Morbidity and Treatment in General Practice: Discussion

      • O. H. Robak
      Pages 80-83

  6. Suicidal Attempts in Hospital-Emergency Units

    1. Social and Ecological Background of Attempted Suicides in Mannheim

      • R. Welz
      Pages 85-95

  7. Epidemiological Studies in Child Psychiatry

    1. Child Psychiatry: Recent Epidemiological Advances

      • P. Graham
      Pages 97-106

    2. Mentally Retarded Children in Camberwell (London)

      • L. Wing
      Pages 107-112

    3. Mentally Handicapped Children in Mannheim

      • M. C. Liepmann
      Pages 113-124

  8. Needs for Mental Health Care and Utilization of Services: Monitored by Field Studies

    1. Incidence of First Contacts and Need of Staff and Beds in a Community Psychiatric Service

      • J. Nielsen, J. A. Nielsen
      Pages 125-130

    2. Estimate of the Need for Psychiatric Services, as Indicated by a Social-Psychiatric Survey of the Finnish Population

      • V. Lehtinen, E. Väisänen
      Pages 131-134

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 135-138
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About this book

The many significant changes that have come about in the mental health service of different countries in the last two decades have made administrative and political decision making in the distribution of care services a much more hazardous business. In the United States, for example, the number of occupied psychiatric beds fell from 550,000 in 1955 to 190,000 in 1977. England and Wales experienced similar if less pronounced changes, while in the Federal Republic of Germany the same trend became apparent some five years ago, although here the initial hospitalisation rates were lower. Enquiry into the real needs for various forms of mental health care, especially the need for hospital beds, for places in homes and hostels, and for specialist out-patient treatment, has now become a funda­ mental aim of research in social psychiatry. To achieve this goal by epi­ demiological concepts and methods, including the investigation of true morbidity rates and the estimation of the related need for care, must be used.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, J 5, Mannheim 1, Germany

    Heinz Häfner

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Estimating Needs for Mental Health Care

  • Book Subtitle: A Contribution of Epidemiology

  • Editors: Heinz Häfner

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67338-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1979

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-09425-8Published: 01 July 1979

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-67338-2Published: 12 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 138

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Medicine/Public Health, general

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