Apart from studies measuring the total morbidity in nationwide samples, several publications focused on specific disorders, giving details about risk factors, identifying subtypes, and testing the current diagnostic criteria. Despite the high rates of psychiatric disorders detected in the general population...
This paper examines the prevalence of reported morbidity in Australia during the two time periods 1977–78 and 1989–90. It utilizes data from the National Health Surveys conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in the respective years. Prevalence of reported multi-morbidity is also examined...
Morbidity Statistics from General Practice Royal College of General Practitioners, Office of Population Censuses and Surveys & Department of Health and Social Security (1974). Morbidity Statistics from General Practice. Second National Study 1970-71. London: HMSO... M Alderson - Macmillan Education UK...
In recent years, epidemiologic research studies, often using general population-based or longitudinal cohort samples, have identified several mental health disparities that disadvantage gay and bisexual men in relation to their male peers. In this talk, we address four critical issues of relevance in ...
BACKGROUND:Primary health care is one of the most important pillars of the Tunisian health care system. However, very little information is available regarding the specificities of general practice and the patterns of morbidity encountered. METHODS:We co
Mortality rates after the age of 65 fell in all female cohorts studied, but only in the earlier male cohorts. Unlike Parkinson's disease there was no strong birth cohort effect. However an analysis of Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (Registrar General) reports has revealed a slight ...
Male and female morbidity in general practice: The nature of sex differences Outcomes from large scale health surveys suggest women's morbidity and medical care utilization to be higher than men's. Survey findings have often been qu... CMTGV Wijk,AM Kolk,Wil J.H.M. van Den Bosch,... -...
Statistics as we know it first appeared roughly at the time of the emergence of the state. There is evidence of elementary population and land censuses carried out several millennia ago. With the formation of centralized states, and especially in the age of capitalism, statistics gained a much ...
The fourth morbidity survey in England and Wales is based on a population of 473,000 persons registered in 60 practices and cared for by 241 general practitioners. This presentation traces the evolution of morbidity surveys in England and Wales. That evolution has taken place against a background...
CONCLUSIONS: Different sets of SSLRs apply to primary care and general population samples. For general population surveys in developed countries, the results of the Australian National Survey represent the currently available best estimates. For developing countries or rural areas, the results are less...