Robins L N
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1978 Jun;35(6):697-702. doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.1978.01770300039003.
To aid the President's Commission on Mental Health as well as the nonspecialist, the uses and developments of psychiatric epidemiology are briefly sketched. In the past few years, methods have been innovated that are capable of making differential diagnoses on a lifetime basis. We need instruments and tools that provide sufficiently detailed information to be of real use for prevention, intervention, and social policy; many such developments are now within our grasp. The problems are prospects of epidemiology, and needed administration and educational supports for future application to the question of who gets ill and why are discussed.
为协助总统心理健康委员会以及非专业人士，本文简要概述了精神疾病流行病学的用途及发展情况。在过去几年里，已经创新出一些方法，能够基于终生情况进行鉴别诊断。我们需要能提供足够详细信息以真正用于预防、干预和社会政策的仪器和工具；目前我们已能实现许多此类发展。文中讨论了流行病学面临的问题、前景，以及未来应用于探究何人患病及病因问题时所需的管理和教育支持。
