Boyer R
Sante Ment Que. 1990 Nov;15(2):73-88.
The goal of this paper is to summarize recent epidemiological findings from community studies on mental illness prevalence and incidence among male and female respectively. The author refer mainly to the Epidemiological Catchment Area (ECA) research projects. A review of developments of the American Psychiatric Association classification of mental disorders is presented and implications of the new nosology on the epidemiologic method is offered. The data indicate that males and females vary significantly in prevalence and incidence of psychopathologies assessed in these studies. Results are compared to those collected for the Santé Québec health survey.
本文的目的是总结社区研究中关于男性和女性精神疾病患病率及发病率的最新流行病学研究结果。作者主要参考了流行病学集水区（ECA）研究项目。本文介绍了美国精神病学协会精神障碍分类的发展情况，并探讨了新分类法对流行病学方法的影响。数据表明，在这些研究中评估的精神病理学患病率和发病率在男性和女性之间存在显著差异。研究结果与魁北克省健康调查收集的结果进行了比较。
