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PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY IN BERLEVÅG
Author(s) -
BJARNAR E.,
REPPESGAARD H.,
ASTRUP C.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1975.tb02287.x
Subject(s) - psychiatry , officer , neuroticism , population , medicine , public health , psychology , personality , environmental health , nursing , social psychology , political science , law
For the population of Berlevåg the psychiatric morbidity is 37.3% registered with the Harvard health and family life survey and 20.5% with clinical estimates (life prevalence). The actual psychiatric morbidity (point prevalence) is assumed to be markably less than 20%. By checking psychiatric cases seen by the public health officer in the first half of 1973 and by 2 psychiatrists during field work the summer of 1974, the morbidity not registered yet, predominantly consists of borderline neurotic states, who by many psychiatrists will be considered as being within the limits of normal variation.