The epidemiology of schizophrenia and other common mental health disorders in the English-speaking Caribbean La distribución epidemiológica de la esquizofrenia y de otros trastornos mentales comunes en el Caribe angloparlante

• Main Author: Frederick W Hickling
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2005
• Subjects: Epidemiología; Caribe; salud mental; Epidemiology; mental health disorders; English-speaking Caribbean; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Trinidad
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/f51a6968ea374980adf5d11b0fa1ee00

OBJECTIVE: To report on the epidemiology of schizophrenia and other common mental health disorders in the English-speaking Caribbean. METHODS: The MEDLINE, MEDCARIB and West Indiana electronic databases were searched with the phrases Caribbean AND psychiatry OR mental OR suicide, and items with spec...