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Psychiatric epidemiology has played a central role in shaping the development of psychiatric care in the community over a period of 150 years. Signal developments in the evolution of community psychiatry emerged in tandem with psychiatric epidemiology in the mid-nineteenth century and again in the mid-twentieth century (Susser et al. 2010). In the current era, this close relationship continues, especially in the effort to “close the mental health gap,” that is, give the same priority to mental as to other health conditions in national as well as global health initiatives.

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  1. Department of Epidemiology, The Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 630 West 168th Street, PH 9-212, New York, NY, 10032, USA

    Dana March PhD, MPH & Ezra S. Susser MD, DrPH

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    Hunter L. McQuistion

  2. Center for Public Service Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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  3. New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, USA

    Jules M. Ranz

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March, D., Susser, E.S. (2012). Epidemiology in Community Psychiatry. In: McQuistion, H., Sowers, W., Ranz, J., Feldman, J. (eds) Handbook of Community Psychiatry. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3149-7_3

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