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The treated prevalence of mental illness in the Republic of Ireland – the three county case register study1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Dermot Walsh ,
Aileen O'Hare ,
Bertram Blake ,
John V. Halpenny  and
Patrick F. O'Brien
Dermot Walsh*
Affiliation:
Medico-Social Research Board, Midland, South Eastern and Western Health Boards, Ireland
Aileen O'Hare
Affiliation:
Medico-Social Research Board, Midland, South Eastern and Western Health Boards, Ireland
Bertram Blake
Affiliation:
Medico-Social Research Board, Midland, South Eastern and Western Health Boards, Ireland
John V. Halpenny
Affiliation:
Medico-Social Research Board, Midland, South Eastern and Western Health Boards, Ireland
Patrick F. O'Brien
Affiliation:
Medico-Social Research Board, Midland, South Eastern and Western Health Boards, Ireland
*
2Address for correspondence: Dr Dermot Walsh, Medico- Social Research Board, 73 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2, Ireland.
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Synopsis

In-patient data show high rates for mental illness in the Republic of Ireland, particularly for schizophrenia. ‘One-day prevalence’ figures from the Three County psychiatric case register have been compared with similar data from the Camberwell register. The results confirm much higher contact rates in Ireland.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , August 1980 , pp. 465 - 470
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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Footnotes

1

With the help of Drs M. Reynolds, P. Spellman, S O'Shea, O. Leavy, P. O'Doherty, M. Waldron, G. CoughIan, A. Early, S. Geraghty and P. Fitzgerald; Messrs M. McCauley, C. Delaney, J. Smith, B. Costelloe, P. Bane; Misses P. Coffey, A. Dempsey, E. Cox, A. O'Keeffe; and Mrs P. Bane, C. Lennon and K. Jenkyns.

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