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Are incidence rates of schizophrenia decreasing?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

Povl Munk-Jørgensen
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Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , April 1993 , pp. 7 - 9
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