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Ideas in Psychiatric Epidemiology

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Estimating Needs for Mental Health Care

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I should like to try to illustrate the value of a few ideas that have persisted for a long time in psychiatric epidemiology and that still retain a great deal of promise for the future.

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Wing, J.K. (1979). Ideas in Psychiatric Epidemiology. In: Häfner, H. (eds) Estimating Needs for Mental Health Care. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67338-2_2

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