Download or read book Practical Psychiatric Epidemiology written by Martin Prince and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-08-07 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a general introduction to the epidemiological techniques appropriate to psychiatric research. The book emphasises the methodological difficulties implicit in psychiatry and explains how to apply established techniques to study the causes, prognosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders.