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The Relation between Physical and Mental Illness: The Physical Status of Psychiatric Patients at a Multiphasic Screening Survey
ISBN: 9781442631700
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Mental illness -- Psychosomatic aspects; Mentally ill -- Statistics; Multiphasic health screening;

This volume presents the findings of a study carried out, at a community health screening survey, to test the association between physical and psychiatric disorder. It is suggested that the findings, which confirm the two types of morbidity, have implications for the delivery of health care and preventive medicine.

Michael Robin Eastwood , MBChB, MD, MRCPsych, MANZCP, FRCP©, is an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto and a staff psychiatrist with the Clinical Investigation Unit at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry.