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A comment on the yield from national surveys of mental health

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Rachel Jenkins ,
Howard Meltzer ,
Terry Brugha  and
Paul Bebbington
Rachel Jenkins
Affiliation:
WHO Collaborating Centre, Health Services and Population Research Department, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK, email R.Jenkins@iop.kcl.ac.uk
Howard Meltzer
Affiliation:
Mental Health and Disability, Section of Social and Epidemiological Psychiatry, University of Leicester, UK
Terry Brugha
Affiliation:
Brandon Mental Health Unit, Section of Social and Epidemiological Psychiatry, Leicester General Hospital, UK
Paul Bebbington
Affiliation:
Social and Community Psychiatry, Department of Mental Health Sciences, University College London, UK
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Abstract

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Henderson and Andrews have written a timely paper to examine the yield from national surveys, and pose questions of value for money, survey methods, delineation of pathology by categorical boundaries rather than dimensions, and breadth of risk factors examined. We would like to address the points they raise, exemplified by the purposes (Jenkins et al, 1997) and yield of the British survey programme.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 2008 , pp. 20 - 22
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