Measurement and Classification in Socio-Psychiatric Epidemiology: Midtown Manhattan Study (1954) and Midtown Manhattan Restudy (1974)

The 1.7 HE threshold of the century's final quarter is a timely turning point for updating the kind of overviews brought together in this special issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

Abstract

7 HE threshold of the century's final quarter is a timely turning point for updating the kind of overviews brought together in this special issue of thejournal of Health and Social Behavior. The editors invited this particular summing up of the present state of affairs in the art of estimating prevalence and incidence of' mental disorder. The latter refer, of course, to modes of measurement and classification that are fundamental in the overlapping, often collaborating, sibling fields of psychiatric epidemiology and