Estimating Needs for Mental Health Care: A Contribution of Epidemiology (Paperback)

1 Introduction.- 1.1 Estimation of Needs by Epidemiological Instruments.- 2 Morbidity, Needs, and Utilization: General Contributions.- 2.1 Ideas in Psychiatric Epidemiology.- 2.3 Prospects for Epidemiological Research in Neurosis.- 2.3 Estimation of Need on the Basis of Field Survey Findings.- 3 Psychiatric Case Register as a Basis for Estimation and Monitoring of Needs.- 3.1 Psychiatric Case Registers.- 3.2 Estimation of Need on the Basis of Case Register Studies: British Case Register Data.- 3.3 Estimation of Need on the Basis of Case Register Studies: Discussion.- 4 Psychiatric Morbidity and Needs for Care in General Practice.- 4.1 Psychiatric Morbity in General Practice in a West-German City.- 4.2 Psychiatric Morbidity and Treatment in General Medical Practice: Discussion.- 5 Suicidal Attempts in Hospital-Emergency Units.- 5.1 Social and Ecological Background of Attempted Suicides in Mannheim.- 6 Epidemiological Studies in Child Psychiatry.- 6.1 Child Psychiatry: Recent Epidemiological Advances.- 6.2 Mentally Retarded Children in Camberwell (London).- 6.3 Mentally Handicapped Children in Mannheim.- 7 Needs for Mental Health Care and Utilization of Services Monitored by Field Studies.- 7.1 Incidence of First Contacts and Need of Staff and Beds in a Community Psychiatric Service.- 7.2 Estimate of the Need for Psychiatric Services, as Indicated by a Social-Psychiatric Survey of the Finnish Population.