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Psychology Mental Health

Mental Disorder in Canada

An Epidemiological Perspective

by (author) John Cairney & David L. Streiner

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Jun 2010
Category
Mental Health, Mental Health, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802094421
    Publish Date
    Jun 2010
    List Price
    $55.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802092021
    Publish Date
    May 2010
    List Price
    $114.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442698581
    Publish Date
    Jun 2010
    List Price
    $44.95

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Description

Canada has long been recognized as a leader in the field of psychiatric epidemiology, the study of the factors affecting mental health in populations. However, there has never been a book dedicated to the study of mental disorder at a population level in Canada. This collection of essays by leading scholars in the discipline uses data from the country's first national survey of mental disorder, the Canadian Community Health Survey of 2005, to fill that gap.

Mental Disorder in Canada explores the history of psychiatric epidemiology, evaluates methodological issues, and analyzes the prevalence of several significant mental disorders in the population. The collection also includes essays on stigma, mental disorder and the criminal justice system, and mental health among women, children, workers, and other demographic groups. Focusing specifically on Canadian scholarship, yet wide-reaching in scope, Mental Disorder in Canada is an important contribution to the dissemination and advancement of knowledge on psychiatric epidemiology.

About the authors

John Cairney is an associate professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences and Family Medicine at McMaster University and a senior research scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

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David L. Streiner is a professor emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences and the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University, a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and senior scientific editor of Health Reports.

David L. Streiner's profile page