Pavlovsky Federico
Hospital T. Alvarez, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Vertex. 2003;14 Suppl 2:27-39.
This article summarizes the activity of the Programa de Investigaciones en Epidemiología Psiquiátrica (PEPSI) (Research Program in Psychiatric Epidemiology) of the CONICET, directed for more than thirty years by Fernando Pages Larraya. After an anthropologic psychiatric experience done in the Gran Chaco Gualamba, by the end of the 60s, Pages Larraya and his team developed the theory of Cultural Isoidias, zones into which the country could be divided for epidemiologic studies. This article summarizes some of the principal lines of investigation of this program which departures from an initial study of the prevalence of mental diseases in Argentina. Other lines of research (such as a study about marginality, about Alzheimer's disease, about alcoholism and about AIDS) are summarized very briefly so as to give the reader an idea about the enormous field of study embraced by the PEPSI.
本文总结了由费尔南多·帕格斯·拉腊亚指导三十多年的国家科学技术研究委员会精神科流行病学研究项目（PEPSI）的活动情况。60年代末，帕格斯·拉腊亚及其团队在大查科瓜兰巴地区进行了人类学精神病学研究后，提出了文化等病区域理论，可据此将该国划分为不同区域进行流行病学研究。本文总结了该项目的一些主要研究方向，这些研究方向始于对阿根廷精神疾病患病率的初步研究。其他研究方向（如关于边缘化、阿尔茨海默病、酗酒和艾滋病的研究）则进行了非常简要的总结，以便让读者了解PEPSI所涵盖的广阔研究领域。
