@article{ref1,
title="WHO's work on the epidemiology of mental disorders",
journal="Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology",
year="1993",
author="Sartorius, N.",
volume="28",
number="4",
pages="147-155",
abstract="The WHO programme on epidemiology of mental disorders started in the early 1960's with a series of reviews of knowledge. These were followed by activities aiming at four main goals: the standardization of psychiatric diagnosis, classification and statistics; the development of standardized internationally applicable instruments for the assessment of mental patients and of variables relevant to the assessment of mental illness; the conduct of epidemiological studies of mental disorders; and the training relevant to the above goals. The paper provides a description of the activities undertaken to achieve these goals and stresses the importance and usefulness of the collaboration of individuals, experts and institutions all over the world in this effort.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0933-7954",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}